Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1913 — GOOD JOKES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOOD JOKES

QUITE CORRECT. A showman issued an announcetnent stating, “Come and see the great sawed fish I” A learned gentleman read it, and informed the showman that he had made a mistake in the word “sawed;” that it ought to be “sword." ♦ “Yer’d better Come in an’ see fer yerself; the hadmission is only tuppence,” said the showman. So the learned man paid his "tuppence,” went in and was shown a large cod-fish sawed in half. “Yes ain’t the fust genelman wot has tried to teach me ’ow to spell; but I tell yer I’ve ’ad aggood eddication, an’ I’m runnin’ this show jist to show people I ’ave," grinned the showman. The learned gentleman left, deeply indignant with the world in general, and the showman in particular.