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...sale in England last week went the new Edward VIII postage stamps: Ha'penny, penny-ha'penny and tuppence-ha'penny. Only by the firmest insistence was His Majesty able to get this most unprecedented royal British issue past its critics in the Post Office. The new stamps have simple, modernistic and almost photographic profile views of Edward VIII which really look like...
Humor of the Old Deep South is divided into sections on Indians, Hunters & Fishermen, Doctors, Lawyers, Politicians, Preachers, Players & Showmen, Barkeepers & Bonifaces, Broadhorn Boys & Steamboat Bullies, Pirates & Picaroons, Duelists, Ha'nts, Greenhorns, Ladies, Darkies et al. The humorous incidents have been laid so long in lavender that they have mostly lost their tang; but those who can turn the clock back in order to laugh might enjoy the tale about the young doctor who cupped the Negro wench's sternum; the anecdotes about Lorenzo ("Cosmopolite") Dow, pioneer of Southern Methodism; Mike Fink's misadventures with the Deacon...
...With a ha...
...alumnus comments, "Ah ha, so this is the honorable and exalted calling to which our college boys are going nowadays. Let them show their supreme erudition in their manner of approach to our doorsteps on sleepy mornings. Let their footsteps ever be light and their horses well behaved." It might be added, "perhaps this is only a part-time job for a graduate student...
Jack: I'll have to find out about it. Maybe-ha ha-it's one of those dictaphones...