.. Honk, honk!_
A. P. H.
[* NOTE.--In the Somerset version the word is
"_un_furled," which makes better sense but scans even worse
than the rest of the song. I have therefore followed the
Gloucestershire tradition.]
* * * * *
SOURCES OF LAUGHTER.
"It will have to be a great deal funnier than that before it's funny,"
said George.
This represented the general opinion, though Edna, who has a good
heart, professed to find it diverting already. Unfortunately she has
no sense of humour.
Jerry, the writer, claimed exemption on the ground of being the
writer, though he did not see why his article should not remove
gravity (as they say in _The Wallet of Kai Lung_) from other people
quite as effectually as the silly tosh of A. and B. and C., naming
some brilliant and successful humorists.
The company then resolved itself into a Voluntary Aid Detachment.
When they met again at tea Edna made the suggestion of a sprinkling of
puns.
"We've got rather beyond that, I think," said the victim with dignity.
"I'm not so sure," said George cruelly, "that you can afford to
neglect any means.
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