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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 1 (May 1, 1932.)

O, Yes

O, Yes.

A certain young lady went to church with her new baby and told the minister his name was John Beasley Lang Mulligan. “That's a foine name, to be sure, and he surely looks a foine lad. What are you going to make of him?”

“Make of him?” she replied. “Oi ain't going to make nothin' of him. He's well provided for from his birth.”

“A beneficiary under a will?” questioned the minister.

“Not a bit of it. Oi got the bonus for ‘im when he was born; Oi'll git the endowment for ‘im till he's sixteen; the dole till he's sixty; and the old-age pension for the rest of his life.”

The Whirly Worm. The Early Bird: “Oh, my! ! What a worm!”

The Whirly Worm.
The Early Bird: “Oh, my! ! What a worm!”