Judge — September 28, 1895 — page 10: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

JUST A LITTLE SLIP OF A GIRL, SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES. SOYVHAT are you going to do with that bible, Marjorie?" “Why, mamma, I've lost my slate-pencil, an’ I'm just goin’ to hunt through the bible. I've looked everywhere else. Up in the country last week grandma lost her specs an’ gander told her to search the script- ures, Then grandma opened the old bible an’ there they were.” Marjorie sat down on the floor with the book in her lap and for ten minutes gravely leafed it through. Not finding her slate-pencil, she put the book away, saying thoughtfully, “I guess country bibles has more things in “em than city ones, ‘cause they're older an’ lay round handier.” Mistress (to pious colored cook)—" Manda, if you ‘Il come to my Howse GIOLE & MAROON BER HUY TALS room Sunday afternoons I'll read to you all about the Master you love Miss Favre (surveying her new green silk in the glass)—"* Dere! dem 40d Serve so well. f ri ; ; sleebes will ketch dem niggahs. -We'll see whedder Iris toe be de obserbed ob ‘Manda —" Lord bress yo’, honey, an’ tank yo" too; but / don’t need de unobserbed at de Blackville picnic ergot.” to.read nuffin’ outen any book. -My-telations wif de Lord am pussonal.”” A DISASTROUS ACCIDENT; OR, THEY LAUGIE BEST WHO LAUGIL LAST. comicbooks.com