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"What did tlu> efficiency exjjert have to .<ay?"' 

 "He can't understand it." 

 "Understand what?" 



"How we make a success of this phice. He says his investigations 

 l)rove tliat with our nieth.ods we should have failed ten years ago." 



Harher: "Do you want a hair cut, sir?" 

 Customer: "No. I want them all cut." 

 Barber: "Any particular way, sir?" 

 Customer: "Yes. Off." 



A humorously inclined young man was l;eing shown around an en- 

 gineering works. 



"That's an engine-boiler," exjjlained the old foreman. i)ointing to a 

 large steel cylinder. 



"An engine-boiler! \A'hat do they l)oil engines for?" asked the young 

 man. 



"To make the engine tender." 



DEFINITION 



Wiseacre: a field of learning. 



And now comes the Income Ta.x, again. Just as we begin to think it's 

 l)ossible to make both ends meet, somebody comes along and moves the 

 ends. 



First Visitor (before the Suli)hurlx)tt()m Whale): "I wonder if 

 that's the whale that swallowed Jonah." 



Second Visitor (blankly): "I dunno. I never bin here before." 



We have been asketl to print the following poem and to recommend it 

 especially to the attention of the Department of Ichthyology: 

 It was midnight on the ocean. 

 Not a street car was in sight ; 

 The sun was shining brightly. 

 And it rained all day that night. 

 It was a summer da>- in winter, 

 The rain was snowing fast. 



