Judge — October 17, 1896 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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GOOD FISHING STILL. 'AKE_ apart the split bamboo, Pack away the lithe canoe, Hide the creel and bait-box too ; There'll be royal sport next May, For veracious anglers say All the big fish got away. VERY FORGETFUL. BENEVOLENT lady had given to a pious old colored man a large-print copy of the new testament. As she saw him, one day, puzzling over the first chapter of Matthew she said, “ Well, Pete, how do you like it?" “ Fac’ is, missus,” was the reply, “dem fellars got no min’; dey done ‘member nuffin’. Dar waz Abraham, he fergot Isaac; an‘ Isaac, he fer- PLY’ gor Jacob; an’ Jacob, he fergot Judas an’ his brudderin.” NATURAL CAPACITY. ss DAVIE.” asked Edith, * what makes grandma talk so much ?* “Huth !" replied the boy, “can’t you see she’s got a double chin?” THE SPANISH WIN ANOTHER VICTORY. SPAMSH CAPTAIN —"' Our scout reports that we are surrounded by nearly a hundred Cubans SPANISH GENERAL (in trembling tones)—" Divide our forces into detach- ments of five hundred men each. We must break through their lines and reach the fort as quickly as possible.” THE ONLY RESORT. ss] DON'T know what to do with my son,” complained Mr. Trivvet “was anxious to make a lawyer or a doctor out of him, but 1 can't get him to study.” “Then he'll have to be a college professor,” replied Mr. Dicer. A NEW DEFINITION. " A FAMILY MATTER, 5 sow . ; Saree Ps + John, Mamie complained that you tried to kiss her. Is that true?” Teacher—" Now, Tommy, tell me what ruminating animals are ? “Why. dear, didn’t you tell me you wanted her treated just like a member Tommy —" ‘Them what chews their cubs.” of the family 2° . COMPARISON. THE gas-contractor is a type Unlike the minstrel gay, For ‘tis the former who lays his pipe While the latter pipes his lay, THE GUM GIRL. Small girl —" Have you any gum?” Drug-clerk — What kind of gum, young lady —Arabic, elastic, Senegal, caoutchouc, tragacanth, Jones's, Smith's, Robin- son's, spruce, the woozy gum, the seasick cure, the gum that’s round, the square chips, the bicycle cake, or gum to eat?” Small girl—""No.1 want chewing-gum,” ECONOMICAL. Patient—"\ am con- vinced that death, after all, is the best physician.” WAYSIDE REPARTEE. Doctor—" Why 30?” , Mr, Weasel ; your business seems to be running into the ground * Patient — “ Because Mx. Weasei—" Ves; but yours don t seem to be going to the dogs.” he pays only one visit.” Seen And comicbooks.c