Professional Pride.
Extract from a plumber's account:—
"To making good leaks in pipes, 8/6."
"Wanted 2 Lions male and female or either any of them. What will be the cost? Where they can be had and when can we get."—Indian Paper.
Can any of our readers oblige this eager zoologist?
"An incident of an extraordinary nature befell Colonel ——, C.B., while playing a golf match at Brancaster. A large grey cow swooped down, picked up his ball and flew away with it."—Newfoundland Paper.
Probably a descendant of the one who jumped over the moon.
Betty. "Mummy, how did these two marks get on my arm?"
Mother. "The doctor made them. They're vaccination marks. There ought properly to be four of them."
Betty (after much deliberation). "Mummy, did you pay for four?"