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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 4 (August 1, 1927)

Proverbial

Proverbial.

Tramp: “You know the sayin', mum: ‘He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.”’

Mrs. Subbubs: “Very true. And since you speak in proverbs, I'sll refer you to another old saw.”

Tramp: “What one is dat, mum?”

Mrs. S.: “The one back in the woodshed.”

First Actor: “Good joke that, eh, what!”

Second Actor: “Rather. The first time I heard it I laughed till the tears ran down my pinafore.”