Judge — November 1, 1884 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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12 THE JUDGE. A Quite too Previous Young Man, Wri sin; A cobbler bi The rustic beat Had stolen Crisp) For e’en a cobbler has a heart atent, One eve, with love and f And in He in-dro} buxom ther blu n his awkw And gave th “My dear *Whate'er Your life be a life of ease No sorrow sl shall my darling tease Said Jennie faintly, —"* If you p Sat blinki said gallant Crispin, and I How well, The cat And took Gi and you agree Of m sweets without a And, best of mate Of troops of rosy “ My love.” he said Perchance we'll have a noisy hive They'll sin laugh, And swing upon the garden g While I work early, hard and lat and prate, But we m To make them steady You train the and, with Tl switeh the little lads al And wax them good when they Jo what parents she When With angry brow, Sbe cried,“ ¥ My childn So plea lo! to Crisp' n, deart Td have you h to take your hat and Amazed, the Her towerin Then sprang acre And kicked the eat And ne'er went ¢ y more i The world is ever ready tu overlook the frailties of dead heroes and statesmen. Let the ex-Sheriff prove himself cither a hero or @ statesman and then drop off; and we will hear no more of these disagreeable Mariaisms. The American public is a decent public, even a prudish; and if a candidate has been mixed up with affairs that cin be properly ventilated only in a court-room and improper: ly exhibited at full length only in contraband publications, why, of course, sich acandidate is safe from & newspaper attack at close quar- ters, What makes it dificult to rout skunk out from under the corn-erib is be. cause the farmer iso! 1 to go for the var- mint with only one of his longest handled pitch-forks, which he can wield with only one of his hands while he holds his nose with the other. DOOMED TO DROWN. Mrs. Kensington’s Mantel-Board Mus quins. does tidic TON likes mantel limbre- rs them as he nd fancy chairs Krysis Mr. Ke pillow can sit upon. ton has a mania for em- broidery and decorating, and she is a woman of determination, withal. You can tell that by the firm way’ she sets her li r and 3 her needh to her work, whi isengaged in her favorite oceuys unced her inter drapery for the dinin Mr. Kensington knew quite well accomplish what he considered le resolve, and he groaned inwardly. s had no effect on a person’ of Mrs Ke and proceeded work a pattern of a strawberry vine fruit, bi ground 1 Whe ale ion of making ‘on’s spirit, Jen brown plus! was the cher away at her task with that the work was hen she paid a carpenter board that ¢ wered finished black i n’s pride and ner fit stood back and surve ly the work of her has Kensington came home to dinner and witnessed his wife's latest ve a comtemp aint and why she didn’t embroider of tomate ‘omat shricked Mrs, K toes! ‘That 1 should ever live to hea beautiful strawberries called tomatoes! soon finished. one dollar for up the was Mr. after poundir and doing all work rely ¢ ers with amMner the wood admiring When Mr that night atrocity: hy sked potatoes in: an unfeeling wretch Mr. Kensi:g ton!” And then the air grew Lluer than the leaves of the strawberry vine. A few days after this episode the weather ew very cold, A fire of Cannel coal was lly Kept in the dining-room, and) Mr. sington fondly ined that when the antel board would be re- <. was prepared for acouple of loops in quo. that the thing p. but the lambrequin evidently bore a charmed life, and there it hung, an yand an head of until evening when he invited a friend home to The dinner passed off all right, but coffee Mr. Kensington, in atten inadvertently hed a match ler side of the mantel pice. nel lining of the instant the Ken You’ » left the d on kept ho serate the ign strawberry vine w sington shrieked, a ree of mind and jerked the w floor, where ish rug, th business sly dicta, drapery was a total clock and china that a marble s of blue rned the mantle shelf. The damage amounted to at least fifty to say nothing of Mrs. Kensington’s dl temper. Mr. Kensing various od on set the and with her irit has set about acenstomed ener Now that matches and cigars are tabooed comicbooks.com