Judge — April 14, 1883 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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The Latest Record of an Old-Time Breve Said “Te The day that Cw Made women qua Anil old men shake S if palay had come o'er “em “Vim here Howled T You all did like b His mem'ry who sh replied His fame is Rome's great steeple! But yesterday bold tarth’s echo Now Ties he th ‘To reverence the brave wounded His woose is cooked His spirit booked, And Tani quite dumbfounded © Ttomans, countrymen and frie Have patience while Lelaw itt will, his love he sends who seorn to draw it Tn all my days No such amare Asimine, when first L saw itt y that crowed for € art F marrow inv my be t1 Dest can please her Unto her need Let's raise old Ebenezer! Tf Cains ( could have known, Or Marcus Bru it Sly T been o'erthrown ws quick dealt it t Philippi y east the die host helped melt it, G4 I THINK IT'S A JOKE. I way be wrong, and so [ have eluded to leave it to the readers of Tire Jupar. ‘This is how it i \ month or so ago T bought a little place down on Long Island, consisting of a cottag und about a quarter of an acre of la it didn’t cost much, and almost anybody might have done the same thing, but my friends of the press undertook to make much of it, and Jneof them published a statement to the effect that T, having amassed a fortune with my pen, had purchased a large farm on Long Island, and would devote my time to heavy farming, An one had it that Thad bought a place unde nd would devo days to light comedy market, din making cocktails, I suspect that this fellow intended to be funny, But the p who wrote that my friends had resoly k my farm for me, and ealled distance to forward see implements to me, was, I think, a trifle forward, Tum now more thoroughly convinced th ever before of the power of the press, anc that have many friends who approve of my THE JUDGE. | back within twa or three hour | retirement: from literature to ds where they r nd thing a mowing: tt achine from the riment of plows on the sume terms, and the inventor of a revolving steam harrow wrote tu tell me that he would present me with one of them if [ would only + talk it up in the paper Another friend sent me a cultivator, a potato-d » Birexror : [see by the papers vfarming. “Allow the, in the nu to congratulate vo ur determination, For fifteen years fe been forced to read your writing j doubt many have been led “to lag were advertised under the bead of hy just the same as people do who 2 co minstrels, simply becatse negro minstrels pposed to be funny, Go in, old man, for all vou worth, and send’ me the first fruits produced by the aid of the machines T forwarded you, Send me a comic pot pen inste me vou have been fooling with fe i and a relieved public will rise up and ery bully! Tose serena It isa question in my mind whether that lotter was intended to he fanny or ironical, satirical or complimentary. But 1 got the machine. Indeed, [ received everything that THE TABLES TUR Feware Doeton (echo has been called ont in the middle of the night, to husband): Well, | Pim going now : try aud soothe the baby, and give hin his medicine every half-hour, UU be ulatory letters thing truly wond My neighbors think I wonder, for my pw, if all this is inte to inform my fri ed as marks of esteom store-house or move back to the Husnaxp (mentally) ireat Seat! This comes af marrying a femate doctor !? was ever used ona farm, and several imple: wld never be used under any and any quantity of cong but the different kinds of forwarded to me is some nd the fre hoerizy—and ne arden lot is covered with jcnltural implements and — packs plant anything that we find it impossib to settle down to how r the lack abs hunt ground-mole ghtful cuss sent ane by mail w little paper bag containing some inten mpelled 1 know whe nufacture eat once | will write another book and thrust it forth upon the world, ERICK TOP, comicbooks.com