Judge — February 2, 1884 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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ie JUDGE. Day Dreams. To sex me here with my glass and my j And my fire, and my d You'd think that ought to be jolly and snug. And so La nk you—the same to you and my meerschaum, cosily here, k of the sunny summertide hours, When the whatdo. eallem w And the breezes blow, likewise the flowers, Dreaming maybe of fame, or strife Of hopes that kindle, of loves that Dless— Some people might eall it wasting life, very pleasant nevertheless, {this is all very you know, achow nor flower, nor summer is nigh, And the only corn, is the corn toc, And that'll want cute . Mrs. Squizzle's Misfortunes. It looks like insanity to see people run- Falls, when r inyself, 1 don’t have t for falls, for they come to me every time I set my two fect on the sidewalk. | terday, [got a bump that cansed my head to sw al to the size of a bushel basket. As soon my feet, I summoned a policeman, wi a wonder, | It's the first time, sine ty, that I've known one 1. waking his head, he repli “The po- men have to be careful how we handle ‘lies nowadays. Only last one of y off the car track just jn time to save her from being run over, she went to th id had him arreste: “ What fur?” [Lasked.” “She said she had just laid down on the , ina quiet w se she had got along comes a meddle- some policeman and yanks her off ina rough, inc nt manner, and so she got him | broke. ~ how was I to know but you | had the misfortune to fall under | r wheels I spose you'd have let me lie | should not have interfered | unless you had with your pl called on m : “Well, my you is, you are auseless set, n to buy the br: said I. “ Thank you, Jane,” said he. “My name is rina Squizzle,” I said, “and don’t you forget i Just then a pretty well-dressed fellow ran against. me and came near knocking me down again. “Who is that impertinent critter,” said I. He's a ‘hunter’,” said the policeman, is, he’s both a ‘hunter and_ finder,’ a fortune at it, he tells me.” urself,” says I, “and y to be made at it, I'll go into the business myself.” “He hunts for what is lost,” said the policeman. “But how in the world does he know where to look?” I asked. “Oh, he gets the papers the first thing in | the morning and fi " is lost; then he goes in the locality advertised and hunts, it takes sma OTN i ie ii ATi in So a WORKING UP AN OPINION, Hesnasp (a think Pm a requl Fosp Wire—* first on one side ect, then on the other, and the seldom that he don’t make od haul. Sure enough, I could see him, half-hent, searching. 3 so T just crossed the street, and, ¢ ming in ahead of him, I went to sear too, I walked so slow that he soon got up along side of me. He ct zing glance, th he, “ what are you looking for, 1 “Just what you “Oh!” he; and as he passed me he hit me again, nearly knocking my feet from under me. beg pardon, mam,” says he, and t hold of me, which saved me from n the sidewalk. the second time you have nearly upset me,” says I, “and it wont be healthy for you to tr “As the sidewalk 18 rather narrow, I'll leave the field to you. ‘Trustin, wll find what you are looking for, I'll wish you a very good morning,” said’ he, and then he walked away. “Come in, Min, for goodness sake, come in, The neighbors will IT went around the Square onee more, but finding nothing, I started for home, when loand behold, on putting my hand in my pocket, [ found nothing but a hole. My pocket-book, with the little there was in it, Tai even my handkerchief, was gone On looking for my wateh I found tl was gone also; about an inch of th my belt. Thee hunter” had probably tuken it at the time he ran against me in the Square. I was too angry to speak, so 1 said nothing, but I firmly resolved. to write a tale of adventure in the “hunters ” and * finde pletely. skinned me ¢ Miss Mary Krone is the only lady assayer in the country. At present she is the principal of the Denver School of Mines, and she is not an old crone, either, Miss Kate Kar, the, Mlinois lawyer, objects to. being called a “female If any man persists in the that she k as Kate is a “man” of her word slic undoubtedly will, Bie ee 2 comicbooks.com