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• Editor: B2331
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume 2
• Page Number: 2
• Date: April 2 1913
• Tags:
• joke

Pointed Puns

Why He Stopped.

‘““‘Windley doesn’t play the cornet any more, does he ?”’

“No ; he thought he’d better give it up 29

“‘Bad for his lungs, eh ?”’

‘“‘No ; it wasn’t that. One of the neighbors shot two keys off the instru- ment while he was playing it.”’

His Motto.

A very small boy applied to a great merchant for a situation. The great man sized him up carefully and asked what position he wanted.

“A chance to grow up in the busi- ness.”’

““Well, what is your motto, my son?’’

“The same as yours.”’

‘““What do you mean?”’

‘“Why, on the door there—‘Push.’ *’

He got the job.