Wellington Times in Wellington, New South Wales

Scraps of Fun and Village Laughs Across a Page

A collage of anecdotes and misheard dialogue from a bygone village sense of humor. Bits include a wary wife and extinguisher quip, a quiz about the laziest pupil, a crooning mother, a Scotsman facing blindness, Mrs Evans and Mrs Fogarty, and a tiny circus with one lion. Short exchanges reveal light domestic foibles, gossip, and social quirks characteristic of a parish paper vignette.