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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 12 (April 1, 1930)

Whale-Bones

Whale-Bones.

“You, boy over in the corner!” Thus the brutal examiner to the nervous-looking pupil in the class. The boy over in the corner shot up like a bolt. “Answer this,” continued the examiner. “Do we eat the flesh of the whale?”

“Y-y-yes, sir,” faltered the scholar.

“And what do you do with the bones?”

“P-p-please, sir,” responded the nervous one, with chattering teeth, “we 1-leave them on the s-side of our p-plates.”

A Financial Recovery. “I thought you were too ill to get out of bed?“ “And so I am—but six shillings in the pound, Ike!— how could I stay in bed?”

A Financial Recovery.
“I thought you were too ill to get out of bed?“
“And so I am—but six shillings in the pound, Ike!—
how could I stay in bed?”