Judge — November 7, 1891 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE THE THREE WISHES. HREE girls sat idly on the beach : One like a lily, tall and fair; One brilliant with her raven hair; One sweet and shy of speech. “T wish for fame,” the lily said. “And I for wealth and courtly life.” Then gently spoke the'third, “As wife L ask for love instead.” Y:ars passed. Again beside the sea Three women sat with whitening hair, Still graceful, lovable and fair, And told their destiny. “Fame is not all,” the lily sighed. “Wealth futile if the heart be dead.” _ RECIPROCITY. 7 Cone (tragically) Aha! und so T haf peen nurs “T have been loved,” one sweetly said, ing a snake in mine ym.” rr . ” Loew * How vas dot?” ‘And I am satisfied. Cone: Tere I haf paid your car-fare at leasd four SARAM K. BOLTON. dimes, und now you refuse to lend me a fife-tollar bill.” TURN ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY. SOWHAT'S the matter inside, Gabriel?" asked Peter as,he heard shouts inside the gate. “Charles I. is kicking the stuffing out of Cromwell and smashing his A BADGE OF RESPECTABILITY. Mrs. Cumso (to six-year-old daughter) —" But are you sure that this fittle girl you have been playing with is of a respectable family?” Mabel — Oh, yes, indeed. Her papa and mamma have only one child.” JUST ABOUT RIGHT. Mr. Hottnack (as new resident passes) —"* Who's that eccentric- looking man who's just moved out here?” Hatie—" I don't know to it is, but I'm dead sure what it is.” Mk. Houtuack —" What is it?” Hatin —"'A blufl NOT A FAIR RETURN. 64] DON'T think that’s reciprocity,” yelled a passenger on a Fifth venue stage to the driver as he alighted in a puddle. “ What ain't?” called the driver. “I drop my fare in the box, but you drop yours in the mud.” AN OWED. THE autumn wind, which penetrates and chills, Doth bring to mind my unpaid tailor-bills, WELL-NIGH PERFECT. Fanning —" Chadwick says few genealogies are as flawless as = his.” CONCEALED. Mrs. Eritraist (to her husband, who has just returned from her city cousin's, where a party was held the night of hit arrival) —"* Naow, Eph, dew tell, What Fanning —" Some doubt as to a younger or elder branch?” did. the wheomen:folks wear Ei M— uff) a . I didn’t k Channing —" Ves; his grandfather was a foundling.” (puff) the table.” GD) ae OED FIRE oe Channing —"\t runs back to the time of Edward the confessor with but a single flaw.” comicbooks.com