Judge — October 26, 1895 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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262 Side SURE! SHE melancholy days have come, The saddest of the year,” When Tom-and- Jerrys take the place Of cooling draughts of beer ; And shiv'ring corner dudes deplete Some “uncle's” motley stock Of fur-lined overcoats that lay All summer long in hock ; And shrewd coal-barons chuckle oer The price of anthr: And plumbers * pipe” joy That" bursts” to their delight ; And moneyed swains their steady girls Take often to the show. And editors dread poems on The beautiful—you know ! A.M. ToOMEY. AN OBSTACLE IN HER WAY. ++ D)ID you like the matinée?” ba said Mabel to Blanche. | ite. “lay” of Miss Oldtimer afterward re- membered that the man was blind. “No. I couldn't see the stag “ Your seat was well toward the front, wasn’t it?” “Yes; but a foot-ball player sat directly in front of me.” A CHANGE OF EXPRESSION, LIND beGGAR—"' Beautiful lady, won't you help a poor fellow 7" Then the uncle of the hero takes. a-sailing on his yacht his sons and all the other folks who figure in the plot, and a sudden squall upsets them on the ocean's wavy breast; but you needn't think the lovers end by drowning like the rest, for a floating log sustains them (how it came there goodness knows) and he holds his sweetheart in his arms and hangs on by his toes. CHAPTER XXXI. “AND LAST.” After being duly rescued they are haunted by the dread that perhaps the others have escaped and therefore are not dead. But next day, as they are walking on the seashore, do you know, they find those six dead bodies laid out neatly in a row. So the hero gets the title and the heroine is free, and they marry and live happy ever after, don’t you see? JexxiR DODsWoRTH LocKWoo!, IT SEEMS THAT WAY. A RAILROAD isa business arrangement in which all the people who pay for it: construction lose their money and those who participate in the reorganization make their fortunes. STRUCK BY A Wave, A CONDENSED NOVEL. CHAPTER 1. WHEN they met a subtle something seemed to thrill them through and through. Without thought or hesitation their two souls together flew. Ab, too sweet, that happy meeting on that bleak and windy moor! She was promised to the villain, and he, alas! was poor. Yes; between him and the title, as the law of entail runs, Wii 2 a stood a hale and hearty uncle and three very healthy sons, i 4 CHAPTERS I. TO XXX. = F- Smee { ; | San Every day, upon the moorland, met these lovers fond Sa: J = | and true, and they \ — P cted in the manner lunatics are said to do, She was pale and worn with weeping. He wrote rhymes and tore his hair, and the villain formed a background for the antics of the pair. Just about this time the hero is enlivened by the joy of meeting the adventuress he'd married when a boy. At the heroine's reproaches he bows his manly head, while his lips are heard to mutter, “Alas! I thought her dead.” When the villain and adventuress meet, in a day or so, they find that they were great o!d chums ortee in the long ago. NOT ACQUAINTED WITH THE LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE APPARATUS. So the heroine grows pensive and the hero he grows Uncte Wavaack (afrightedis)— Gol swan! ef T hain't strayed inter a private loonatic- leah, anid a week before ber wedding brings no ersylum. Guess I'll lite aout o” here. ‘There's no tellin’ but what thet crazy critter thet the'scene. g brings nochange Upon’ nits he's talkin’ tee suanbody "way over in New Jessey might git rhuipageoes en” bur sout o' thet little coop.” (Doesn't stop to finish his cider.) comicbooks.com