Judge — November 6, 1897 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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

MU me ce HOW LAZY SPIKE, THE ONE - LEGGED TRAMP, GOES FISHING. FISH STORIES, HERE once was a corpulent carp Who wanted to play on a harp; But, to his chagrin, So short was his fin ‘That he couldn't reach up to C sharp, ‘There was an old shark with a smile So broad you could see it a mile. He said to his friends, As he sewed up the ends, Tt was really too wide for the style cw THEY WILL BE WELCOME, Spykes—*1 see by the papers that electricity has been applied successfully to the forcing of early small fruits.” Spokes—“ Then I suppose that succeeding years will see ohm-grown strawberries on the market earlier than usual.” Jae THE PeNWiPeR— Weary CAaNaDay HIS IDEA. + ¢\A AMMA,” M said lit- tle Georgie Gil- foyle, “I don't think it was a dove that Noah sent out of the ark.” “ But the bi ble says it was, but I think it means a catrier- pigeon.” H, who saw the minister's wig blow off, exe claimed excited- ly, “ Poor man! his head is all uncorked.” A CHANGE OF MIND. Ikey—"' Can't I keep a rabbit, fader?” FATHER—"* No, mine poy ; it's said to pe unlucky.” Ix Rhebinstine’s fader led him haf one und his blace caught fire der “*Vell, mine poy, you can haf one und dry id.” EMPHATIC KEPKOOF. Miss Marcaret Hocctey (of Chicago, to her sister in a London drawing-room, harshly)—"* See here, Mabel ; sisterly love is sisterly love, but if you address me as ' Mag’ again in the presence of Lord Loveus I'll cut loose when we get home to our rooms at the hotel." A FITTING EXPLETIVE. ay. Weary, git over an’ git some apples.” Naw; I'll be dog-gone ef I do.’ comicbooks.com