Judge — November 24, 1883 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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STOCK EXPRESSIONS FROM presses his hand avulsively to his fac oa ud f hoor Bon Butler whole island shake tives fly they to its old Bismar just 4 the centre. “The a after they have 1. the ble and elep! ts. and native all that are left to tell the at thieves, they are the greate at dexterous thieves inthe world Wall-street broker a handicap of 100 Ibs, and outfoot him from fy. Pye seen them steal the sheet while the man was Ii on it, and the man none the wiser: n idi (exe me while I we my breath) iss fe four of the ants will climb ap on the bed and roll up one side of the sheet until i to the body of the slee; more of the will climb up on the oth of the bed and push him gently, while another of the crowd sits on the head bed and sings—their singin faculty of Iulling the listen insensibility: aft push their vietim on to the side which is denuded of the sheet, and then the fi 1 the sheet up elimb over the pre » form, and the whole erowd yank the sheet off the bed and make away With it; and the musician, putting his bas- into a green baize bag, leaves the rehestra and joins the raiders on the outside of the what they do with the sheet whe got it, [don’t know; but that they get possession of it in that manner I do, for [have had it occur to me frequently, They take no chances when they burgle, either; they rab their bodies all over with 1e kind of oil, so that if the sleeper should pen to wake “p nd make a grab for one of his opponents, the wily insect slips through s. Ah! [tell you, the w re wonderful, especially Ma wel ni lows whe roll soon ye natives are becoming christianized very rapidly; L don’t know anything they take so readily as Christianity, unless it be small-pox, —/ it is a beautiful sight to see the dusky beaux and belles coming arm inarm to the little church around the corner, each clothed in the newly-made convert’s humility and a palm leaf fan, and then to hear the choirstrike up with * Just as I am, | without one flea,” for they are very. par- THE JUDGE. MODERN LITERATURE “ — then giving her hi upon t arm, they pr park girls have lave till forty, wh | too much odds, I'm thinkin. But now its wondherful intirely the rayjuvenatin power that same money has, for Tsced boys th palpeens forty years Tim bein one of them), geitin made there deklyrashun afore the majestrate that they warnt beyant thirty, shure, its bound to be thrne; an faix, Judy, pets to chureh with thers, U : | them at home for the ehildr People who don't: know anythi say that the morals of the nz his givin them who lives yeu will tell you that thee population is compe and a total on odo it ‘ather Pat tie us up t come Hollentic any harrun sout of the and mel needw’t mind, for didn't he enuff twonty years ay shure if there for mas: five pour Och, he war a Charltos the hev vats sayin, we had ag nd ye wuddn't bleve how near thirty dim ev looked whin he tuk his face from be- hind his beerd and scrubbed the big dirt off, e mesel end } Ifuther to the eldest chile, Wl him 1 Judy niver compassed win ov our ow whisht now sez Biddy, 50 a Kee nv what adivorce rd of Henry Ward B lings with strangers. th erous; they first f ar boodle, anil they never attempt to get a cent more ont of you than you are able to pay. In matters of is, and never he In their just. yet ge exte only two or thre nd ould man intirely, 3 nil bates Gladstone hollow ns rest his soul W Invite a for would no more d ier to dinner the host f picking the tail of roast monkey until he had offered it to his guest than we would of washing our faces int | a finger bowl. and then offe i todrink; and if you find his feet encroaching too closely upon Your plate you have only got to mention the fact, and” he'll put them further away from you immediately sec it isall nonsense.to say that the M. caus are totally ignorant of the form ceremonies of civilized social life. (To be continued in our next, unless the author attempts to sit out a performance of the Stranglers of Paris.) rvidin anime Arrah, rubbin her n, to make bleve she 1 troth she lost the thriek ebbe its a garal me in aw tarrible w long itll be afore I Know whither Pm an uncle or an aunt, an all that time FI niver be able to sware to me vwn identykshun, which is a poor case for a to he in, but anyhow, [ think a letter 1 not the rite man ially, av theres « thrifle ov that lo} iv be, which quandayry, thin! nd | intercepted Letters. PROM MM. PADDY O'RAFFERTY TO Mm, WRADY BARNEY PADDY O'RAFPERTY THE BOG LAND PULTYWARKKERA, IRELAND, e Theerd tell ov hoppin this find. as it laves me at this | wud be Tue American Consul at Toronto, On- tario, has procured the bones of a gigantic mastodon, which were buricd in field Y They may belong to the ss" of delightful memory. me sister Biddy w ye used | so swate on long ago, an she picked up y boy enuff, Tim Casey by name, an gettin the Charltons money, which didn’t heer abont over beyant there, but its money a good gintleman ‘left to en- courage matrimony among the layburrin classes, tho faix, mesel thinks th aygur enuff for it widout it. Well, the boys Who knows Ow the contrary mule, ticular about that; they never bring their, musn’t be beyant thirty years of age, but the | [2illefs donr—sweet William, comicbooks.com