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THE OHEMAWA AMERICAN
SMILES A N D SUCH
HUMOROUS G L E A N IN G S FROM VARIOUS
SOURCES
B U Y IN G A CAMERA
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Desirous of buying a camera, a certain fair young
woman inspected the stock of a local shopkeeper.
“ Is this a good one?” she asked, as she picked up
a dainty little machine. “ What is it called?”
“ That’s the Belvedere,” said the handsome young
shopman, politely.
There was a chilly silence. Then the young woman
drew herself coldly erect, fixed him with an icy stare
and asked again:
‘‘Er—and can you recommend the Belva?”
A GREAT .HERO
“ This is one of my ancestors,” she said, pausing
before a portrait. “ He fell at Waterloo. Have you
any ancestors?”
He suddenly remembered an uncle who had sole
charge of the front of a movie show, and murmured,
“ Er—yes, one.”
“ Did he fall anywhere?”
“ Not exactly; but I remember being told how, cloth
ed in full uniform, but unarmed save for alight cane,
he stood before an Eastern palace and kept a howling,
surging mob at bay single-handed.”
“ Really! How splendid!”
“ Oh, he thought nothing of it. He did it every night
for years.”
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