Judge — December 7, 1895 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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

THE GLOBE-TOURING CYCLIST. (Wrecked in Egypt) $+ [LJPON my wheel Il spin and spiel aroand the blooming earth; O’er lands and seas with greatest ease 1 pedal for all I'm worth, Allahabad, Irkutsk and Bagdad, I'll do as they never were done— Wherever I roam is the eycler’s home, from rising to setting sun. “Some winks and kinks with the drowsy sphinx of Egypt l'il exchange, And Arab and Turk shall quit their work as over the desert I range TM say to each mummy, * Wake up, you old dummy !" and take life as luck may allot it. A monarch I feel as I ride my wheel, Oh, give me the earth !" And he got it THE FOOLISH TURK. THE old turkey-gobbier wisely said To the woods we will quickly fly And roost high up in the forest-trees, For Christmas is fast drawing nigh." “FU roost right here in the apple-tree,” One lazy young turkey boasted. But, sad to say, on Christmas day, Instead of roosting, he roasted DILLINGHAM’S CHRIST- MAS. se] M EVER so glad that to- morrow will be Christmas,” said Mr, Dillingham wearily 3 came in and took off his overcoat “A man who works as hard as | do needs a holiday a good deal oftener than he gets one. It's an immense wanted for so long. Some planks Thave in the cellar will do very well, and [ can saw them into proper lengths and smooth them off with my jack-plane in an hour. I used to be very handy with tools before we moved to the city, if you ree member.” "Yes, indeed; I remember the nice window-seat you made in our house at Northville. How very hap- Py We were in our own home when we were first married!" Mrs. Dill- ingham lost herself in retrospection for a minute or two and then add- ed, "I've often thought I'd like to have a window-seat in the sitting- room here. If you'd hammer one up I'd make some comfortable cush- | relief to know that I don’t have to tons for it, and it would be such a get up early to-morrow morning convenience — almost like a new and hustle off to the store.” sofa.” “Lm sure it must be,” replied Mrs. Dillingham as she kissed her husband. ™ How do you expect to put in the day? "There are several little things that I've laid out to do. I've been abelves” ranting to ‘palnt the window- and “Is that all you have to do on door-screens ever since I took them Christmas day, Benjamin in when the flies left, but I haven't oVes, Ethink that's-all.” seemed to find time to do it, They “After that, love, I wish you'd will last longer and look better if Paper the two bedrooms in the they receive a good coat of paint mansard. “They need it $0 dread. when they are put away for the fully, for they haven't been papered pele in years. 1 bought some real nice paper down town to-day at a great bargain, and it was delivered a while ago, If you'll get these things dene, painted,” Mr. Dillingham went on, Benjamin, dear, you can have all “I intend to put up that set of the rest of the holiday for your own shelves in the pantry that you have self.” be “Very well, dear; I'll do that after I put up that set of shelves in the pantr chest out. while I have my tool- There's more lumber in the cellar than I shall need for the *Tsuppose that is quite true,” Mrs. Dillingham assented “After 1 get the fly-screens Draw shot. Frozen, A ROMANCE OF THE BILLIARD-TABLE. ° comicbooks.com