“Yes,” she remarked, “I know he’s very much opposed to long engagements.”
He took the hint.
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Vicar (who has called to read a letter to one of his parishioners from her son at the Front)—“Your son, Mrs. Codling, has been fighting in the trenches. For a whole week he was standing up to his neck in water!”
Mrs. Codling—“Well, I never! This war be doing some funny things, sir, to be sure. We couldn’t get ’im to put water anywhere near ’is neck when ’e was at ’ome!”
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“Do you know, Bill would be awfully helpful to the Germans at the front.”
“How so?”
“They might just get him on to talking about his fishing exploits when they were filling their gas-bombs.”