Judge — February 20, 1897 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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Mudge MY SINGING VALENTINE. Y¥ VALENTINE, who will not come with ancient rhyme, But with a modern ditty— Ah, if you should not come at all ! "There, there would be the pity ! My valentine, will yon buy me a sonnet, And send me, through the morning post, A card with pictures on it? You'll not beneath my window wait, Because you wake not up $0 soon As once it was your wont to rise, ‘The first to greet your lady's eyes. So, may be, you will call in state, ‘To lunch with us at noon. And bon-bons and sweet violets Perchance you may be bringing ; But, valentine, I wish you'd come as in old time, Beneath my window singing ! wet Avan, A FELLOW-FEELING. JOHN GRINDEM, the coal baron, lay in the robbers’ cave just out- side of Florence. He was bound hand and foot, and was wonder- A JUVENILE RENDEZVOUS. ing whether he was to be held for ransom, or tortured to death for the SkaTER—* What are you planting the danger-sign there for, mister? Why, amusement of the pleasure-loving Italians, Suddenly Luigi Tampa, the ice hereabouts is the thickest and safest on the pond.” chief of the bandits, sprang into the cave, crying, < ELpsaty bent Lune it ! ny boys are comin’ here skatin® this arternoon, B 1a iwayeloiad a Amnericaincy epene. (O08 an’ I'm puttin’ this sign here so’s 1 know whar they are, an’ not feel worried. Ha, ha! «J am always glad to see an American, I spe about ‘em. gosh ! years of my early life in New York, helping the people there to keep their streets clean, and I < “Friend, brother! par. learned all about America. Z, Z ZZ F fer sene don me. I knew not who Now, old fellow, I want Cine F i # Ha |S’ you were. 1 would not you to tell me all about i hehe / y 2 7 Cast ti a hair of your head. youre ae las f 4 ¥ yf Come into the salon and R : : let me introduce you to much you are worth. One ro, , ¢ my companions. * will lie and I will blow out ° ( Seen ae ceameeions your brains. I can find ji ee. ! but a poor, insignificant out your whole history in . ~~ : robber compared to y venty= four h by if . o : j a twenty-four hours by F f and I want to be able, sending to my agency in nh ins : ; ‘ 2 when my last hour comes, Rome: sols 1 en S [ 4 shies 4 f ¢ totell my children and my eo ere Ll see 7 A AS children’s children that 1 Canoe el aoe aT ‘ y PF once had the honor of en- ig aron. i q tertaining the greatest of ‘own two coal-mines, and ; American bandits.” Tama director of the coal __ | | : $ : Se Seen combine, and "— ! My a: . ‘ j He was allowed to go no further. The robber- f SHALLG BREE STAKE: - . SLICK PeTe—"* Yer wuzn't in at ther round-up las’ nite, wuz yer?” S*MISS SAPPHO et a ate sires tbat ‘Auxaut Ixe—" Whar wuz it?” writes such charm- und him and, lifting him Suck Pete—"'In hyar, I corraled ther new rancher's cattle in a game uv poker, He wuz epee to his feet, grasped both broke an’ staked his hull drove agin a thousan‘ dollars.” He poetry. 3 Colighs - ALKALI [ke—"' Waal, thet he sold ’em all day before yisterday except a scrawny heifer !y-_ “She has a triplet in of his hands and cried, an’ a dead cow, I guess yer ain't in much.” a February magazine.” 4 —contortionist ; so— 6 —1 am all right.” IT WAS EASY FOR HIM. comicbooks.com