Judge — May 5, 1883 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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MR. SLIMKINS. MAKES A MISTAKE, | ‘Yes, I've made a mistake this ti muttered Slimkins as he awoke me by sitt down on my feet and then proc ly to unlace his lavender-topped crs, of which he was so proud Slimkinsand [ roomed together—not be: cause We Were ext itly fond of one an other, but because our limited salaries forced | us to practice economy. | “What have you been up to now?” Task resting my head on my hand and looking ly at him, he mournfully re I shouted: ** why, you can't + What sin, * y I tried, so me away to the boys, \ fairafter [ get this confounded she in apoplexy—head man | em & Co. you know- she'll have a nice little pile some day. Twas introduced to her the other night at- the ar- She seemed rather surprised to se nd male out she didn’t know my name just to hide her confusion at the unexpected honor, ete., of my eall, I supp. t sment s away, wasn't long ped at everything F dic Told her how much the + ——=shere’s your knif trings untied! [didw that it took pretty neara lary to pay for them. > Ewanted to make U told her I contd de where F'made “Tt would have been all right if T hadn’t mentioned that confounde for she couldn't very well have asked me to display my ability in wor try a hundred-vard ish in the parlor; but she had mew mentioned music, ax me to sing; and you may not believe it, but when she once bezan to coax, and her rich a lad.ly loomed up bi ° was withstandin; Hed me into it. [don’t see how in the world she did it; but she did, and T gave her a few mnatelies of song * 1 gasped, “what did Teonld her to nt for- ood a mem= and gettin sing and play to me, thinking she mi all about it; but she had too ory for that. It is unnecessary to inform you that I don’t know anything about music, although Lean ‘talk’ it fi te; but I wasn’t going to let her know it, s 80 j s thinking if 1 was going t Yd d glory, ¢ ezer, ’'m are beginning to doubt my ability F just pick out tie most diftic mle pi have, and ['ll sing it at sight. I thoug! mild be a pretty good scheme, be I'd have a good excuse “it I broke down, I wish now, instead of singi ing | ‘at sight,’ [ had taken the usual three-da; | grace. * Well, she selected some infernal opera— | Italian, I think—she said she chose that be- + | bling houses lately, with marked the THE JUDGE. Thay, Mister: told her | spoke Italian—and I be- We got along very well at first, for she had to play two or three lines before it was my innings: but it didn’t so well after I comme T guess she played the accom- janiment wi pr just as sure as 1 would be playing high, hing: and when I she was playing somethi thunder. vy she ch delight in ng in thes he insight into the 1 of procedur sung pretty well, for she as didn’t join something, too, about a hand-organ, but I forget what it was, “ By-the-way, that opera — I forget the name; but it was something ut the Devil, as near as T could make out—must be awful funny when it’s t “Why?” Lasked. * Oh, T could even hear them the next room, and old: Squeeze was just shaking all through the pi * Was that IT inquired. was just beginning another, when old r himself came into the room, looking mad as a hornet—now don’t you ever breathe this te i here, your abled ghing in man! if you don’t stop this in- fernal noise, VI eall the police. 1 heard you two blocks off, and 1 don’t intend to be brought up for ke ping a dise Of course | stop at this i te, and here 5 big mistake,” Slimkins fs us he took his position before the lookin; ss for his usual five-minutes’ | devotion before retiring; ** but Ising pretty well, though, even if Ido say it myself 1. WILLIAMS Tne. police have been raiding the e carried off fabulous numbers of “chip nnot cash them in or play them off when the **ernel raid is over. THE VALUE OF CONTENTMENT varies | according to cireumstances. Vanderbilt's contentment ned at a hundred million: ‘Te Jepge’s about seventy-five cents less. bet'sh have a dollar on thish, 11 of the mouth KER isa little bit of a jeker best hower ” sense, but he low ndrums and such like other day, lay on his bed industr trying to live down a headache which ‘quired by convisiality overniy his wife Hi undertook to re with him. He ws far gone to say much, but he fecbly inquired. My dear, why are you like the last drink | : before she could re you arcane i to be ashamed of culated his bette 1 ought to be blushing tead of ling there making conundrums on the bed.” * nun, the | tid Verekers *P never mac connndrum on bed. Here's one, thoug angrily.” dong age, but made today wit nest used while others sleep ive away likes to keep, “Answer: Bed. See ity fe added, with a chuckle. * Wel said oe Msg stammeri with indi: ion, won't be made to vounless you get it, I can tell you t nd if V take } fire-shovel to'y I feel very much Like Hi doing, you'll keep it for some time to eon A PASIUON item tells us = will he more used than ever for the ad f i itt ats this season, and even buttertlies and ii ae other insects will be pressed into the service, ete What othe Inquiry loses itself aig it in this illimi 1 of conjecture. Where flowers have been it is but right ‘That buttertlies should Mit and light Ha But “other te! —can it be { We'll have the omnipresent flea att The unt sagacions, busy bee, i] The hor Lei The cockroach and the glidsome fly— iq iit Blest substitute for fruit in pi (i) HR The Croton in are HESS Or (happy th Mb tts Just as soon as the murderer got through + TR with his talk to the gaping crowd, the sheriff ; dropped the subject : Is life worth living? ‘That dependson the | | i liver. i i comicbooks.com