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THE GLEANER
Holden:-"What have you got the bandage around yer head for?"
Bus Herrington:-"A thought struck me." ******
Butters:-"There's something preying on my mind." Marge MacArthur:-"Never mind, it will soon starve."
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Phil Bedenham:--"What would you give for a voice like
mine?"
Mr. Felker:-"Chloroform."
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Frances Burt (in a restaurant) :-"W hat kind of
have you?"
Waiter:-"Steak a la carte." Frances:-"Good. Wheel it in."
steak
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Mary Zimmerman:-"Oh, dear, I just can't adjust my cur·
riculum."
Frances Burt:-"Never mind, it doesn't show, anyway."
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Dorothy Brock:-"Did you hear Mr. BenOliel's Baccalaure·
ate?"
Janet McPherson:-"No, but all these foreign cars are
dreadfully noisy."
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Roy Trott (in barber chair) :-"Be careful not to cut my hail·
too short."
Barber :-"W hy?"
Roy :-"People will take me for my sister."
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Sarah Fryer:-"How did it happen you broke with Charlie?"
Ruby Slimmon:-"Well, he said he liked marble tombstones and I said I wanted granite."
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Salesman :-"These phonographs are excellent reproducers."
Miss Clark :-"Y es, but I don't want a lot of little phono- graphs running around the house." ·
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Kate MacMurchy (in an argument with Catherine Gibson) :
"Seeing is believing, isn't it?"
Catherine:-"Not necessarily. I see you every day."
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Mr. Felker:-"Name one important thing we have today
that we didn't have one hundred years ago?" Florence Smith :-"Me."
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Carr (to Wright):-"Say, Wright, did you see that girl
that went past, she smiled at me."
Wright:-"That's nothing, when I first saw you I laughed
out loud."
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