Judge — July 26, 1890 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE THE CAPTIVE. OVE crept with a pitiful droop of the lips To my knee, which he pressed with his pink finger-tips— I turned an indifferent ear to his plea, ““I'm your captive,” moaned he ; Oh, be gracious to me!” And love—helpless love—kissed my hands. I looked in his eyes and I felt a strange thrill ‘To find this wild creature a slave to my will. An instant—deft fingers had bound hand and knee. You're my capti ied he ; “Love, be gracious to me!" And I—happy I—kissed the bands, TY WARM ENOUGH. a very warm day the rail y ort remarked a man at he one who made the original observation seemed surprised at this reply, and he asked: “Did [ understand you to say that this isn’t a warm da “That's what you did.” “In other words, you contradicted m “That's about the “Contradicted me flatly } i } 1| STRETCHED A LITTLE TOO FAR. Yes." make a statement it is alw: and is invai “Oh, ably made in good fa go to Jericho!” the absolute a now, do you know that is something I never permit? When I ys based on what I deem to ke sound premis h, Hence I never permit it to be disputed. Auxt Roxy —"Elnathan Bowers ! «_ UNcie NATHAN (just returned from his first New York visit) — “Well, mother ?” Aust Roxy —"* When you tell me that th’ hull of N* York har- bor is full of cider, an’ that’ they ‘s dimunds ‘s big 's ches'nuts stuck all over Union square, I kin b'lieve yer; but when you say that th’ Brooklyn bridge is over fifty feet high you're lyin’ like coon-tracks, . my friend, | am not going to Jericho; | am going to prove to you an’ you know it!” of my assertion that this is a very warm day. And the man who did not permit any one to contradict him peeled off his coat. I'm not going to fight you,” said the other when he saw this warlike preparation. “IT know that,” replied the man who had been contradicted. “It is 1 who am Never!” and the doubter intent on convincing him aga trousers and ran him into a brick wall, Then he rolled him in the gutter and gave him several kicks by way of a parting attention. As the man who had been contradicted and other- wise abused gathered him- self together he soliloquized : ’s the way things go in this cross- grained world. 1, who needed no additional proof that this is a very warm day, am over- whelmed with this wealth of corroboration, while the man TRACK. who really needed proof of the matter is, I suppose, still lose, Ss unconvinced. Well, Iam SPINDLE (He jockey) —"* No, Rufus; [value my reputa- thankful that 1 am not re- tion too highly to sell my employer for such paitry sum. Vhrow in that white pig-skin saddle of yours and I'll con. sider the proposition.” SQUARENESS AT TIE KLEY (the fout)—' Five hundred dollars if e7" sponsible for this deplorable state of affairs.” wens A VITAL QUESTION IN OLD EGYPT. + © EXCUSE me,” said the statue of Memnon traveler stood before the head at .T must forego my morning salutation to Sol to ask you a question Some tourists told a story near me yesterday which greatly interested me. Will you kindly answer this—Was it the lady or the tiger?” sunris SAME SMELL. Head of the house —* Me. Amulet, | don’t object to your coming to the house, but you must stop smoking those vile cigarettes in the The smell is all over the house.” man—*\ haven't been smoking cigarettes, sir. Head of the house —" Heavens! | left them overshoes in the ov Vow the correctness of the remark which you just now disputed. But the doubter was ready for his as going to show you that it really is a warm day; that is, unless you are prepared to ad : was about to turn away when the other sprang at him, st his will, 7 xe He seized him by the collar and eZ. TH \ 5 | ‘eo | cae: 2 e g M1 = Mm OLD Rats THE SOAK —"*Oh, on’y ‘bout forty-t'ree years. You see, boss, when I wus a kid I had a awful tussel wid de aguer, and everybody tought de jig were up; but whisky saved my life, and natur'ly I been sorter under ol de old stuff ever since.” ation to comicbooks.com