Judge — 1888 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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NATURAL GAS FROM JUDGE. ONE GLEAM OF CONSOLATION. ly)—" Ab, deacon! It am very HOY. ck y, rock candy, sir?” . o, goaway. I haven't any teeth.” ‘$ ir?” cha'tisements of Providence Mrs, JOUNSON (meditatively a . catah.” jedgé’s houn,’ says he, ‘we see we was start, an’ w'en —— the jedge give jedgment a; ; go, fer dad jist patted an’ honeyfoogled that ornery houn’o' his'n riz up w'en he heerd the verdict an’ were kin’ away, pleased all through, an’ ketched him solid. The jedge didn't hardly ez Cuffy. The jedge’s houn’ follered him en’ jumped up agin to hear t’other side ‘fore he give jedgment fer our claim an’ cos' him, wantin’ to be patted some more. But 'Nijah 'd had ‘nough I piled right onter Betsey ne ‘ o” the houn’, an’ he up with an’ hain’t be’n no more'n Oe: * : ‘ \ aan his foot an’ histed the dog twenty minutes fetchin’ the i HLS y j Neg clean acrost the room. new Hooray! let's all | |B 4 I " ni Quicker'n a flash the ol’ take a drink!” i LQ \\ AS A, jedge rapped on his desk “Us fellers th’t was fer H J ¥ ik ¥ vi ‘til, the winders rattled, ‘Riah was a sick feelin’ lot { ‘rybody kim upa standin’ an’ no mistake, but we took AMY) i | Bs The jedge give one look at a drink. The smell o’ old } i 4 x . sed the yellin’ houn’ an’ then Sol’s supper floated out inter 4 é : \ A hollered out— our noses, an’ the idee th't | 4 “<The jedgment o’ this none of it wa'n’t fe § Fh 2 \ here Court's rewersed, with almost wild. : f : { j _ costs on the plaintiff, an’ friends begun to move inter | u i Me i twenty-five dollars fine for the dinin‘room, all the time fj 4 contempt 0’ court!’ aggervatin’ us fellers with ee Be | 4 “Squire,” concluded the all sorts o' sayin’s an’ doin's, Ge eee i My 4 Old Settler, “I can’t begin ez we sot thar in the bar- ‘ * . . follered, room, hungry ez catty 4 . i \Y ) =f 'Nijah’s friends jist wilted mounts an’ glum as mourn- |; Van i i ‘ i down in their boots, an’ if ers. : 4 us fellers didn’t mosey in ‘Never mind,’says they. (HH) Wa i | : . Dieters an’ clean ol’ Sol’s table, an’ ‘You fellers kin hey all th't H ‘ i 3 hev a Chris’mas we don't git away with!’ feet EA ‘ / almost riz the roof, then th’ they says, an’ they howled | ie } te hain’t no use o’ hist'ry bein’ a laughin’ an’ begun to set eg Kl Phe writ!” down to the feast. Jist then i fa HOW HE MADE HIS FOR th’ kim another hoss clat- " i TUNE. terty-bangin’ up to the door, ‘a i NN TT Naess ’ Fifth-avcnue wife —* Her- an’ the nex’ second one 0’ . ; bert, who is the man that Riah Hambright’s boys just purchased the next busted inter the tavern. y 4 i “ «Hooray !’ he hollered. i AE yi Uh) 3 Fifth avenue husband —"* S *Pap’s won!” y } parvenu, my dear. He “We was up an’ aroun’ | ‘ iad | owned a snow-shovel dur- him in a jiffy, an’ hollerin’ 4 Y al Yi; ing the last blizzard.” like mad fer ‘him to 'splain a — hisself, an’ t’other fellers kim AFFECTED HIS MIND, a rushin’ outen the dinin’- Bobley—“ It seems to me room lookin’ wild an’ old Jawkins has a very sheepish. AN HONEST M. D. of looking at “©Pap’s won!’ says Worrten Wirr—Oh, doctor: what has detained you? I sent for you at 12 o'clock; everything Ri, « » way My husband is very low indeed.” ate es pes Kish s boy: eel ihe SY, Doctox (complacentty—"Ves, 1 received your call then, but as T had an engagement vent He oon help th’t "Nijah ed an’ made with another patient in this neighborhood at 6 o'clock, I thought I'd make one job of it it, poor fellow. You know a fool o° hisself with the and kill two birds with one stone he’s cross-eyed, comicbooks.com