When the judge at a baby show said to the mother of the small boy whose thumb was in his mouth, “Your lad Tommy likes such tit-bits,” the precocious child replied, as he removed his comforting hand, in a sentence spelt with exactly the same letters, “So to-day, sir, I suck my little thumb.”
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No. XX
When the lady sitting at the back of this overloaded wagonette said to her husband, “This big load quite hinders his pull,” in her sympathy with the struggling horse,
he made this very practical reply, in a sentence spelt with exactly the same letters: “Do sit quiet, girl; I shall push behind!”
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No. XXI
When a bystander whispered to the marker, “Eh! what a stout player is striking!”