Judge — September 17, 1898 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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IRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. My ! what a plight the child is in ! ‘A half-hour since I set him down ; It means an instant tubbing With ev'ry stitch on snowy, (Where cam the little scamp have been?), _ And-boots that not a beau’s in town With some, perforce, ungentle rub- Could: quite outshine, however bing. showy. Be sure he's gone upon the road And fallen in a puddle In spite of our don't-go-there code— How else explain this precious muddle? Mad head to foot ; on neither shoe ‘Sh! Nurse, bethink yourself a bit The slightest trace of blacking. And don’t make such a pother. Carls gone and hat on wrong-side to; The boy has only, as is fit, Its strings, one torn, one wholly Been out a-walking with his lacking. father. RDWAMD W, MARNARD. Mrs, Murry—' Give me tin cints wort’ av ham.” Grocer—"* Sugar-cured, madam 2" Mrs. Murry—"* No! I want some thot has niver bin desazed.” ONE THING LEFT. THOUGH Spain has tost her Caban soil And everything that's near us ‘There's one thing that is left to her— She has good ground to fear us. BOSTON’S NARROW ESCAPE. Mrs. Manhattan —"\ suppose you people in Boston were somewhat alarmed over the prospect of a visit from a é Spanish fleet a few months ago.” . ALL LOR SAVE HONOR cs , Mrs, Backbay—" Indeed we were. Why, it was too hor- Kacsy—** W'ot! me work? Madam, I may hev nothin’ elst in de world, but I still o . eden neve tee ee "" — rible to contemplate. Think of the humiliation! Seventy per Mrs. OaTLeY—"' Hi, Reuben ! bring the gun, yar "s a Spanyard.” * cent. of those Spaniards are unable to read or write.” HIS COMPLAINT. | ¢6] DON'T mind being a martyr to the caws, as that button-headed summer. j boarder expresses it,” growled the scare- Ll crow who had grown cynical from long service, “and it doesn’t particularly hurt my feelings to have a greasy and odorifer- ous tramp trade hats with me; but hanged { if it isn’t just about as much as I can en- dure when an‘ Uncle-Tom’s-Cabin’ actor pretends that in me he recognizes a mem- ber of the band of barn-stormers le was with last season, Ar-rer-r-r!” 7; MISS ROUGE, THOUGHT posing on the sands all day, She shuns the breakers rolling high, She cannot join the bathers gay, For she must keep her powder dry. STILL GREATER. First Englishman —" So you just returned from America? How do the people over in the states seem to regard the scheme for an Anglo-American alli- ance?” Second Englishman —" Very favor- ably in some quarters. I understand that the citizens of New Vork are anxious for AFTER THE QUARREL. a very close alliance which will permit the 4 Niose MacGonioat. (on extreme deft)—“* If he on'y knowed w'ot a wretched night I passed I wonder if he'd consolidation of New York and London.” tet me took back dean words Lepote #2 f eee comicbooks.com