Judge — April 8, 1882 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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If I Only Were a Pretty Little Fly § WILLIAMS, 1% Write sitting at my e Enjoying much the breeze At my window the other afternoon, A pretty little fly He buzzed as he flew into the room; He alighted h Devoid of every As round about he went with utmost And with beautifal repose He settled on my nose, Which 1 thought was impuden Between you and me, When I his tricks did see, A thought struck me quickly by the bye, To what places I could go, And strange things T would know, If T only were a pretty little Fly. deel, Now, there's election frands (Which no honest man applauds) Are happening in the country every year,— ach side they raise t 1 it draws ni Ya find out, never fear electric Hight 8 but And if they'll ever hold t nilty one right, at World's Fair; to provide, Anil ma al If Brigham Y. AS the papers they Or if he’s playing possum by the bye, And coming back to toil Anil sell “St, Jacob's O11" Ta tell you if I were a little Fly m. AL the Opera 'd appear, Madame Patti [ would hear, But [wouldn't It big bats were In the way ve the play ween the nt a happy millionair al, have tai Leon! And go out t Ta go to every State And watch them legislate, Abont the Mormon ques If the Chine In their land And g If Hayes is really Th icts to have a treat. ion T would know; stay ve the working people here or fact Il know for sui Aud if it comes from drinking 0 All this I would convey Ina confidential way— ICL only were a pretty little Fly. the sly; nm Ifa hank is safe and sound, Or crumbling to the ground, Anid how the cashier makes the mot emigrants would land vaccinate the band ars we're 0 slow; If Jon Kelly will agree To help old Sammy T.— Or if with Sullivan he wants to fight; If Whittaker in tears Will sno us for If Mason's sentence is exactly right; To you with pleasure great These things I would relate. It T only were a pretty little Fly. To Congress I would go, h I'd lose respect I know, And Pd learn how much the “lobby ” gives away; Are by a conscience ruled When they are making thousands every d: TAFFY “You go and call her Pur thing, other Presid Or keep David Davis th A sitting in that ehair, "Till he’s too stout to move him out a, Why Conkling did To be 80 fine, It be with C. A. Arthur's going to try > put Grant up once more In Fighteen Eighty Four— Td tell you if I were a little Fly. “ERRATICS.” Tue fellow who ventured to twitter: “The curs of our present literature is its dogma- tism,” was promptly hounded down, A THRILLING tale—the rattlesnake Ove ‘of our chums, a breezy yachtsman, who was absent from home on a two months’ cruise, said that he wrote to his wife every week, and ‘center-board” We keeled over. wre moni THERE was a jovial company around the banquet table, and when the dwarf laughed uproariously at a passing jest, Tue Jupcr dryly remarked that it wa plosion of diner-mite. a harmless ex- How strange that Bartholdi’s statue of “Liberty” is not to be constructed of free- stone! Tue quivering Jerseyman : are bonnd to ré the affirmative 1 Excelleney, it’ seems, has no taste for cor: poration “sugar.” A good bid for nomination! interrogatory: “Mas a ts that railway monopolists has been answered in Ludlow. His nyr Governor re- “Does this muslin wear well?” “T guarantee it twill, jumper, she ne onsly asket replied the countel Tuoven the buteher adroitly slashes away at joint and chop, he doesn’t appear to have the least skill at cutting prices. goodhumored tlorist never a smile | lacks. AMONG cannot ¢ | heads. readers of English literature we ss all the lovers of Lamb as mutton- Pouitics in this county are so curiously mixed at present that some people cannot tell a ‘Tammany Democrat from a machine Repub- i Is not this a strange state of affairs? ening Telegram, Well, rather, but at- fairs in the State are even more strange. Because General Longstrect said that the South needed more fresh blood, it mustn't be = te comicbooks.com