Judge — July 25, 1891 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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AN EPISODE. HAD met on the bluff. She was dashing and slim In a white-flannel frock and a yachting-hat trim, And her eyes looking under its tip-tilted brim Were pretty enough. Ina few weeks—a huff. She believed I was rich, I had thought her an heiress—the pert little witch ; But we both were mistaken, and there was the hitch— We had met on the blufl. KATH MASTIRSON, APPROXIMATE LIFE. _ He—"You are so English in your tastes I should think you would leave America and live in England.” She—"We can't afford that, but we make it a point to spend the win- ter in Bermuda and the summer in Canada.” STRANGER —‘* What's going on?” Backwaxb Buxnip—" Our dug-out caved in while I was away, an’ I'm If my pard’s inside an’ I hit him he'll be sure t’ fire back.” tryin’ to'locate it. THE AGE OF CONDENSATION. ¢¢LTAVE you seen that volume containing the best fifty books condensed ? “No, I haven't had time to look it up. I am preparing an edition of the ‘ Cyclopzdia Britannica,’ to be printed on a postal-card.” OFF DAYS. TIE earth is fair, and Nature plays Her summer réle full garlanded ; Love's roses greet one full and sweet, And hopes have bloomed beneath one’s feet. Yet there are days When flagging falls the note of flute and fife; When one would say, ‘Let some one play instead. Give us a respite—life !" 2 A REVELATION. Primus —"Did you read Moss’s open letter in the Firmament?* Secundus—"1 didn’t sce his signature to anything.” Primus—Oh! he’s too modest for that. He always signs his press-letters a8 “Vox Dei.’ HOMELY PRECAUTION. re not goin’ to sleep that way, are you?” "ve got to, I got bunkered on my last trip k, an’ mother sewed my clothes on this hitch.” A HAZARDOUS SEARCH. found, ain't 1?" THAT WOULD FIX THEM. e—''I'm terribly afraid of that band of gypsies that came into the neighborhood yesterd: Huspanp—" Well, if any of them call here to-day get rid of them the best way you can.” Wire—" But suppose they won't go?” Hustaxp—Oh, well; if the worst comes to the worst just invite them in and give them some of that angel-cake.” HIS GREAT TEMPTATION. + © NOAH was a great man.” “Was he? In what way?” “He didn’t stand out on deck and yell to the drowning diluvians, ‘Aha! I told you so."” HIS GREETING. GE waits each night till T get home, And greets me at the door ; But it is not for my sake alone— She wants to know the score. x. «. A VISITOR FROM THE HUB. is my first visit to Bah Hah- said the new-comer. “Yes; and how did you leave everything at Boston ?” THE ANCIENT FISHERMAN. HY is his life so like a dream? Quite foolish seems to ask; He gazes up and down the stream, But always down the flask, Bursip's Partner —" Didn't have my gun with me, Backy, but I'm THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW. THE prisoner had just been sentenced to death. “Your honor is a blanked old fool,” he said. “ Officer!” cried the insulted judge, “ar- rest that man. Your contempt, sir, must be punished. Sixty days in jail, sir, is the sen- tence of the court. Not a word, I'll hear no defense,” HOW HE KNOWS IT’S SUMMER. UMMER is here! Rose-garlands lay Over the grave of springtime's muse. My Angelice walked out to-day Wearing a pair of russet shoes. x. a. A NEW DESCRIPTION. Hunker — Mine's tailor-made watch,” Spatts—“ How is that?” Hunker —"It was a premium with a suit of clothes. : A BLACKSMITH, and plenty of other men, Can manage to shoe a horse; but then It’s only a woman can shoo a hen, comicbooks.co