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# "Judge" Magazine Page 19 Analysis This page contains several unrelated satirical items typical of Judge magazine's format: **"The Height of Generosity"** depicts a confrontation between what appears to be a prospector and a Native American, playing on period stereotypes about frontier dealings and broken promises. **"He Put His Foot In It"** features dialect humor involving "Aunt Mahaley" and "Foh" (likely "Flo"), using exaggerated rural/working-class speech patterns for comedic effect. **"A Slight Discrepancy"** appears to mock confusion over names in colonial society contexts. The remaining items—"Meadow-Talk," "The Shortest Way," and "A Grass Cure"—are brief humorous sketches with anthropomorphized animals and rural characters. The page relies heavily on period-specific dialect humor, class-based comedy, and stereotyping common to early 20th-century American satire, which would require substantial historical context for modern readers to fully appreciate.
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THE HEIGHT OF GENEROSITY. Him got no money nor fire-water to give pale-face. Let the pale-face take Lone Dog's squaw Lone Doc —“ Pal and the debt will be paid.” HE PUT HIS FOOT IN IT. Aunt Mahaley (jn horror) —" | declar’ foh a fac’ dat dar Sairy Ann gwine git as black as de ace ob spades if she doan wah huh bunnit !” Uncle Elihu (who is a pillar in the church) —* Foh hebben sake, Mahaley, whar’ yo’ done haar dem saca'lagous wuds? Hit am enuf toe dat hol’s. my ‘sponsible chu'ch kempletly kerflumexed toe haar his fambly talkin’ ‘bout dem impl'- ments ob Satan! An den, yo" calls hit wrong, chile, into de bargin. Hit am de ace ob haids—not de ace ob spades. W'ot dat disignate, yo" axes? Dat mean laik dis. De ace, dat mean de bigges’ an’ de wuss ; haids, dat am de new-fangled wud foh de bad-place. H-a-i-d-e-s, haids. De pa’son done show me in de book. An’ de ace ob haids, Ma- haley, dat mean de bigges’ impl'- ment what de debbil done hab in de bad-place. Hit am de winnin’ kyard, chile, Hit take de cake ebbery time.” know.” iF 1. A GRASS CURE. Marks (irritably) —"* Confound that grass-seed that I planted last evening ! will it never grow?" face shoot bear and save Lone Dog's life. A SLIGHT DISCREPANCY. Mrs. UrrerteN—"‘Oh, yes: I belong to the society of colonial dames, of course —one of my ancestors was an officer at the storming of Quebec, you Mas, Commonstock—"* Indeed? What was his name 7" Mus, Urrerten—" His name? Why, his name was Major Andrew Jack- son Upperten ; he was named after the famous president, I believe.” Aunt Mahatey (sternly)—" Uncle Eli- hu, I hab dis one re- «ma‘k toe mak. Whar’ {yo" ben dat yo" larn so ‘much "bout dem imp!" ments ob Satan?” Uncle Elihu (back- ing rapidly out of the door)—" II has im- po'tant bizness, Ma- haley, dat ‘quires ‘me- diate action!" RUZABETH A. YORE, TH WIND is mosbt refrishin’ on a shtill day. MEADOW-TALK. H, THE Hopper-grass was a dapper fellow, With knickerbockers green ; With a little scarf of orange yellow, ‘And a dotted vest between But the Pillar-cat was a gruff old boy, ‘All muffled up to the chin ; With his cap pulled low on his shaggy locks, ‘And a wicked sort of grin ! Said the Pillar-cat to the Hopper-grass, ** You shouldn't be out in the dew; And I wouldn't wear such a s! If I had thin legs like you. Said the Hopper - grass, ** You're growing crusty, And one thing I'd have you note— I don’t go round ail day in a musty Ragged brown overcoat, YLORENCE MAY ALT. THE SHORTEST WAY. Bleecker —" What's this I hear about old Bullyun’s being in favor ‘of municipal ownership?” Le Grand —“ Well, you see, it was just before the aldermen met to let the gas contract ; and what Bull- yun said was that it might be cheaper for the company to buy the muniici- pality and own it outright.” 2. A GRASS CURE. MARKS (two weeks later, irritably)—"* Well, of all the blank- ety-blanked thick grass, etc, !——!——=I" comicbooks.com