Judge — May 21, 1887 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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You call me “Tis odd, all you've said Of course you're alone. You call me your “ love, Your “i Your * sweet turtle do: The © joy of your lif T cannot quite see Why should you write 80, Explain it to me, Yours hastily—Joe. Midge: A PARCEL OF LETTERS. LETTER 1. Y darling, my own, My dear little wife! T'm sad and alon O, joy of my life I miss you, my pet I would you were here; I'd have you, and yet My business, I fear, ‘So pressing would be “Twould keep me away. Without sight of me You'd spend every day. O, pray pity, lov My loneliness drear : But, sweet turtle dove, Don't come to me here. Lhate thus to roam, For absence I dread, Expect me soon home, Yours lovingly—Ned. LETTER WU. ¢, Pin in town ; Tn alone ; ne down, All business postpone. I left the old girl, iy fils taken in, To have a brief whirl In this city of sin; So during my stay We'll paint the town red. Prepare for the fray As ever yours—Ned. SITER IV. int the town red 7° you, of course! But 1, Mr Shall hav A SOBER YOUNG MAN. Bertie—" 1 know sor know. He isn’t going to smile a hing about Mr. Ludwig that you don't y more.” KINDLY MEANT. UNO (acho sees gaiters for the first time)—" Eh, mister! Your stock- ings Huns falled down.” REFLECTIONS OF A GOAT. The wise goat always looks before he butts. There pension for the goat with the broken horn. The man who invented the rattan bustle never counted the goat in. Tcan travel pretty fast except when Tam harnessed tothe small boy's cart. The circus poster fills the heart of the small boy and the stomach Emeline—" Merey! Mr. Ludwig isn't going to smile any more! — of the billy with joy. Why not ? There is nothing proud about me, T would sooner have an old Bertie—" Oh, I don’t know, only [ heard him tell pa last u tomato can than see my picture on a boek-beer sign. that he was going to There is no reward keep a stiff upper lip.” A TERRIBLE PLACE. “One year ago that young man at the free- lunch counter went into Wall street with a clean $100,000, in to-day he ist than half a million.” HE WAS WANTED. Young man—*T'd hike a place on the police force for my father.” chief qualifica- tion 7 Young man—* He's a confirmed sleep-walker.” Police official—Tell your father there's a place on the force just yawning for him.” A dose of sulphur is given all prisoners on entering ng. It , v breaking Srravemack (from inside saloon) * Look at Fritzy! THE DISADVANTAGE OF PLAYING THE INSTRUMENT WHICH MAKES THE MOST NOISE. He dinks we vox all playin’ togeteter, alnd offered for the goat de- tected in the act of de- facing bill-boards. T have many enemies, but none so dangerous. as the legislators who favor the bill to prohibit the manufacture of can- ned goods. Youthful endeavors producing no tangible results are to be praised in proportion tothe practice they give. The kid that butts before his horns are sprouted gives: very little work for the doctor. 4. 4, O'CONN TL A MIGHTY CHANGE. “O, grandma! don't you think m perfectly lov “Lov No indeed! sa girl we used to have our dresses buttoned up to our necks and one button loves, but now up to their necks one button on dress.” their comicbooks.com