Marvo Jokes

Little Johnny is excited because the circus has come to town and his mum has got front row tickets for him. Finally the evening comes and Little Johnny and his mum go off to the big top. Little Johnny sits there and enjoys the lions and the tigers and the jugglers and the trapeze artists, and finally out comes little Johnny's favourites, the clowns.

Johnny is loving the clowns and their humorous japes until one of the clowns comes up to him and says, "Little boy are you the front end of an ass?" "No," replies little Johnny. "Are you the rear end of an ass?" "No," replies little Johnny again. "In that case," says the clown, "you must be no end of an ass." Little Johnny is distraught and he runs out of the circus and all the way home in tears.

When his mum catches up with him she says, "Little Johnny don't worry, your Uncle Marvo, the master of lightning wit, backchat and repartee, is coming to stay more...