Judge — October 5, 1889 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE IN THE ORCHARD. T WAS in the evening early, when the katydids were calling, ‘That I met him in the pathway where the apple-branches lean ; And I held my head sedately, though my foolish heart was falling, While I tried to pass so quickly, for to wait I didn’t mean, And I wished that apple-branches lower threw their shadows green. ‘Twas so strange that he should be there, like the lover in the story, In the orchard and the gloaming and that sort of thing, you know, While the early stars a-twinkle in their softened summer glory ‘Seemed to shine direct upon us till my face was all aglow, And the katydids kept chatting where the brown-topped rushes grow. It was awfully romantic, and I tried to laugh it over: | J, a modern summer-maiden in a modest muslin gown, i He, a rattling hand nnis ding ankle<leep in clover, nt - PVN athe nun sy bone wa sat and lent, oting dwn A CHOICE LINE OF “DRY” GooDs. pacar Goce ase stan wel ab adder tow : sass ge Could you blame me that I listened when T saw IN THE CANAL*BOAT CABIN. A RHYMER’S REQUEST. a bright face darko ; READY rhymers, ye whose verse In Jeven is such a charming feature, Come listen to my tale of woe, And then assist a fellow-creature. At the laughter and the foolish words I said to hide a tear? Do you think it wrong I lingered with my head bent down to hearken To the tender words he spoke so low that only I could hear, And the orchard boughs and shadows all about us bending near? Thave a poem on the stocks In which a sing! is lacking, For which, from morn till dewy eve, My massive intellect I'm racking. So hasten to the rescue then— ‘o aid each other cannot hurt us— Find me a perfect rhyme for " scarf,” And much oblige, Yours, ru. cunTiss, T'Ml pot tell you what he told me as we waited there together, For you'll surely guess the reason why my face was in a flame Like the lilies by the orchard-wall in tender autumn weather, . When the sunset bends flush with sudden sh: Rut the trees were all aw of his name, jooer and they T THE pool-table Chinamen’s skill should be true, +r with an echo For they queue. f them know how to handle the A CHEMICAL ANALYSIS, HY is repentance like ammonia? Because when it gets hold of | you you feel that a little of it will go A great ways. | ‘Then the katydids were silent—I suppose they stopped to listen And the apple-branches, laughing, told the secret to the sky, While the orchard-p before us, ‘neath the LOOKING BACKWARD. Teacher (1989) —" What was the highest thing ever known in the TOO CHEAP. world?” Customer "Wow much is that First pupil— Vile tower.” | ring?” Teacher — It's marked Second pupil ding-room at y jewelry-clerk— : atti’s last farewell concert, 1980.” Tad you jest as lief back off a little? MEMBER OF THE PasTIME CLUB —" Sxirven’s wirn—"T reckon Ae won't spear no more coal-barges, Hiram.” yu, feaid I'm foul of yer = comicbooks.com