He—“Oh, dearie, please give me just one.”
She—“I can’t.”
“Why?”
“It’s Lent.”
“Will you when you get it back?”
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Another good drink has been scratched off our list when we make our
rounds of the bootleg joints—sherry and egg, for with eggs at a dollar a
dozen and sherry 90 cents a finger, we can’t make the grade. However, as
McIntyre & Heath might say, if we had some sherry, we could have sherry
and egg, if we had an egg.
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