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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 062

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    One summer's day as the general manager of a hotel was about to go away on his holiday he went to look in the kitchen and the rooms. In the kitchen there was a dishwasher. When the general manager saw him he said "Never mind my poor fellow, I began as a dish washer and now I am a general manager" The dish washer replied "I began as a general manager and now I am a dish washer.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT1920: Contest in Lying
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Donal Fox
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12