Judge — July 12, 1884 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. A DIME'S WORTH. — Ah, ha! The Reds‘in is at hand. Folow me. it impossible for the see of the period to make his appearance in print without his pants b; ing at the knees? ‘The question of the future, of a future all too near; the question which, till it be nipped by the kindly November frosts, will be the question of the day and of the night—the question which never troubles the free-born Muscovite, but which the down-trodden Amer » must hear and answer without seeming to get m tion which for Dnisansica’ ** Over the den Wall”—the q ni—but here it is all its maddening, stark-naked absurdity: Well, what do you think of the election? The Book of the Tribes of Columbia. Cuarten T The Little Jo His Humor; He Attacks Blaine; The Turn Hoainst Him 1, Now in the days when Arthur the Chesterite ruled over the tribes of Columbia, there dwelt in Gotham, the chef city of the land, a little naked fellow, whose name was Puc t, called in the wallow-tail. he wore a For the lune atrocious, and ge noe the Gothen But more than that, covering, yea, even a der guage « And it containeth wild thin conceived of Belial, as greatscott, and mightymoses, 4. And this Puck, from the birth, lifted up his voice and things, and humorous legends; waxed fat. And for seven Gotham, and grew y liked him, y of his sake funny so that he s Puck dwelt in And the peo And he attacked 1 destroyed many Howbeit, his days were numbered, e the time near when the assemble to choose another for Arthur, the king, was to depart from his oftioe. fi, And s the tribe of } raler, ® But Puck hated Blaine with bitter hatred, albeit Blaine was popular with the people. 10, And oke of Blaine, a chief in nd said, let him be our Puck laughed at Blaine, and nd the people nd spake y harn things. And Blaine and the people said—lt’s only Puc! But Puck grew bolder ye a picture of Claine 13. And called hinva Blaine said, ‘tis only Puc perce, 14. Puck drew and said Blaine w drel. 15. And Blaine said: little min 16, But Puck langhed him to scorn; and Puck lifted up his voice and said, “Tl make more pictures, Blaine. I'l teach thee I am stronger than the Republican I'll make the tattoo ring from Maine iforni: 1 Puck made Blaine as also in the pictu Whitelaw, chief opprobrious things. Is, And a paper named Times trembled as it raw this, and said, Puck can indeed eat thin I tremble before Puck; Emust de the sycophant. nd painted ttooed man, And and he held his nother picture, viler yet, a Mulliganian scoun- Little things please a wrotchod picture, nd put ound the Svracuse mand 8 kK is wondrous, in the extent of its power it scualetee the Tycoon of Japan. When Gillam ariseth, all Blaine men fall. Hu h for Gillam! or Blaine is in very truth a tatte ts voice And the Syracuse Times ceased speak- held its’pe: And in New York, 1 the yell from now tl Jones and Pulitzer use. people cried with a these sean- d that thou dis ck disregarded the pec nd issued more rtoons. "s voice, And heed to Coventry by anguished for want of cir- And the Syracuse Times took a big tumble; while Blaine ched on to victory, and the last state of that Puck was worse than the first. Oro Mr. J cold, ackson was quite il with a bad and Mollie (his daughter) was sent to the druggist to get a bottle of Dr. Bull's h syrup. She was a very modest coun- try maiden, and felt that it would be very innecent to call for the medicine in questio so after hesitating some time she remarked: “D ck and : bottle of Dr. Cow's cough syrup.” we have no such medicine,” cou aid Nellie, ** but [can’t word? inquired the Doe “Why that word—it's a male cow I wa The ‘Doe ‘tor understood her. syrup comicbooks.com