Judge — March 3, 1883 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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WHAT THE PUBLIC THINK. Our comic artist draveing pictures for * The Judge.” THE WARRIOR AND HIS LADY-LOVE | Sm Lacycetot stooped fron To kisa the lips of tho maiden fair; A moment she trembled like shaking ree Then clipped a lock of her bonny hair, his flory ators said the knight, In an eager tone, when I'm faraway Par +1 bo es trae as the light of day Once more ho stooped, and then sped he away The maiden wept by the castle gate; 1 the parting day, And both repined at their cruel fat Sir Launcelot's sword on many a field Waved high In air by bls brave king's aide, But the war at lastto awect Love did yield, Ho hastened home to his future bride, He eagerly knocked at th But on his heart fell a sudden gloom, When ho heant the gruff old warden relate “The maid has married her father’s groom. Jom a. castle gnte, Belknap at the Fire. ig tire Tuer was a | down-town the other ai; and Belknap, along with a good mang of the Redmon hill gallanta, put on his plug hat, and started out to ausist in.standing on the hose, and also to yell, if an; vody appeared at the windows and tried firemen what to do. He was promptly on the his fine, manly face shining in the light of the flames and his glistening gold-plated teeth lending a certai distinction to his demoniae “ Yoop da! Yoop da the foremen put the trumpets to their lips to engineer any particularly important feat. Gradually his excitem hin a little in advance of the il the first thing he knew, am from one of the direct the drew throug of spectators, very powerful at hose-pipes struck his plug hat with a sickeaing thad, and curried it bounding along the edge of the crowd for about forty feet. The life and property of others were nothing to Belknap then. He stopped yelling and set oat in frenzied pursuit of his new silk hat, Alas, alaa, that It should so soon have failed in the height of its bloom and beauty! When he reached it, and picked it up, and polished It ruefully with his sleeve, its glory had departed. A bent and broken depression marked the spot where the waters had come down upon it; it was draggled and dripping imy aad gritty depo of sand and pavement dust had worked deap into its en filer. Belknap jammed it down over his ears In choking desperation, and looked about to see whom he should devour, but not being able to identi pipeman who had directed the stream, ani scarcely feeling warranted in mopping the pavemet of the inoffensive citizens around him, he t energies, as a last resort, to fighting the fire. The first thing he did was to seize an axe and smash in a plate-glass window in a part of the doomed build- ing not yet reached by the fire. This created a lively anda t REALLY IS, Ouer artist trying to think of a funny idea, draught, and the flames were soon sucking thre the store with great fary Belknap then laid hold of which wa pe of the lengths of hose 1 to the spot, and palled with frantic zeal that he drew the nozzle out of the | pipemen’s hands, and the head of woter them both down and drenched them to the skin. awhile & man appeared at a second story wi being dr suc ou ck Me , and Belknap, thi f that he wanted, snatched up the pipe e force of the full The man was dis- By this tine the pipemen ind begam to | and gave an. n-pin. Al a and decide desire seized him to save are t that was not o back for a momen’ what to do next something. He dil no were burning, of if he coukl save a safe, of, at th go in where the flames burs essary; but | man life! or, If not that, a very least, « eilver butterdieh or a pearl-handled tooth-pick. He gazed wildly around The man in the second story had secured his ladder. and come down very much in nition of a half Bat see! Is not that a face at that win dow over yonder, across the street?) The sparks are flying In that dirvet arely, the buildi Belknap's heart bounds within him again. It and beautiful nped with the beseeching lovelin t Belknap e drowned cat Dn g is in He danger. looks face, Oh, bi fe <3 of terror. the de is a young opportanity alized plag hat till toght his ears, a ladder, shouts to the crowd, tly half a dozen bewildered citizens help him to place it against the wall. To be sure, the block is not burning yet but then, it may be presently, and Belkn: to save life before the fair watcher at th what is happen Jumps into the room, seizes the lady, whose cries be takes to be 3 of delight, crawls out g the fair one to bis bosom wi the ladder with the other, and reaches the ground amid the plaud Its of the ewasing crowd, which is too excited to notice that not even the smell of fire has p: building from which the rescue has been made, p's face flashes with honest about to bear the fainting aly safety. when the vague su: blow causes him to duck his head, and in anot t, with a deafening crash, aa when the parts with its roots upon Mount Td: ed plug hat of Anzustus Belknap parts from his ears and falls with a hollow sound upon the pavement. What are you doing with my wife, you blasted scoundrel!” shouts a hoarse voice in his ear; and Au- ists feels his limbs smite one another hip and thi as he looks up and sees a burly young fireman in a red shirt flourishing a fist like a bass-drum bat over his head. Jown abo and prese p is 80 eager | mes. Up he swarms window comprehends his kn intact from the ti ly cr on the ladder agai the deep: “I—I was only saving her from the flames,” etam- mered the terrifled Redmon biller. ou pug-nosed puppy!" the frightened lady “Take that for 1 the young froin ber would: F imper When Belknap liad passed through the gate of horror, nd fitting visions, confusedly © of sufleris nd found himself in the gutter, with a raxing stream of aqueduct water flowing all around his person, and tw ns of he ing over his anatomy like gig s. His bead ached miserably, and his nose fel ut as large as the knob on ascertained, by feeling of that tate of He called lustily ently two citizens relieved him from his and damp and he limped home, bat ist nied in feel and generally demoralized. His mother fell a his neck and kissed her dear, | 2 but Au gustus only glowered at her around his big blue nose and went ap to bed without a word. lant, as he dr rescuers arms. nence!—and th: and seen and with a persis he awoke antic ebureh ¢ whieh he fairs F help, st ‘omfor sition ured in countenance, we ings, eb MAS. ORADY SNAPDRAGONS A swart thing: Mastanl, Fins qT A real French flat money ol Plon-Plov tirce practice: Pocket picking. Suapy places: Detective headquarters. Mow to put on the drag: Get mo The quack. and a tray Ventraw N ack of a doctor at shakes: Two deve Sorrer, of iuformation: © Inquire within.” Matx chanee: Betting on t) te Vind. Barnanovs Cockney! Strike my pl A reavtan land swell The oyster & The Mace-slade-Su'livan ¢ Secretary Chandler. Auways in a stew on cook Box popul pve xr pot of the | xa dots: Boot h powder: Gutter snip au: The arch a sof a fashionable French trate fs Jack sht in physics iately All who read this paras on cin the | sion): Tho fire Dark suspicion Dinabh “Somebody's in the house wit jon: Half a loaf 1s better than Ax unequal mateh at dominoes, Matching a five toa ‘ouble-six Oxtox sentiment shed them now.” “If you have tears, prepare to Oprrvary announcement: buried yesterday, re> of events was Query f like Spiritualists: Is a a hobgoblin Tueovocicat. Inquiries: What Christian at Work follow? Aut broke up: The track t overtaken by the down exprngs. occupation does the amper unexpestedly Lar of luxury (to the stre drippings from a mol: Arab) s8e3 hogshead. Lapplug up the Cinosicatny secretive personae: The man who doesn't let bis left hand know what bis right hand dowth. comicbooks.com