Judge, 1897-11-06 · page 5 of 16
Judge — November 6, 1897 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple unrelated comic sketches and jokes typical of Judge's satirical format: **"How Lazy Spike"** depicts a one-legged tramp fishing—a straightforward humorous vignette with no apparent political content. **"Fish Stories"** presents whimsical nonsense verses about animals (a carp, shark) wanting musical ability, poking fun at absurd premises. **"They Will Be Welcome"** is a brief joke about electricity being applied to force early fruit growth, with a pun about "ohm-grown strawberries." **"A Change of Mind"** shows a Yiddish-accented Jewish father initially refusing his son a rabbit as unlucky, then reversing course after admitting his own rabbit caused a fire—immigrant humor relying on dialect stereotypes. **"Emphatic Reproof"** depicts a snobbish American woman (Margaret Hoggley) in London scoldingly telling her sister not to call her "Mag" in front of Lord Loveus, satirizing social pretension and name-consciousness. **"A Fitting Expletive"** presents rural dialect humor about refusing apple-gathering work. The page emphasizes wordplay, ethnic stereotyping, and social class mockery rather than political satire.
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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