Judge — November 26, 1898 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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HE GOT A LONGER RIDE. oe 1, THe Hopo—" I'll just sneak up on dat cart an’ git a ride. — i ae MARKED DOWN. 5| z eG ADIE says she's -INFORMATION, twenty-nine. I thought she was thir- ty-three.” “ Well, everything in the store has been marked down since the first of January.” MISUNDER- STOOD. Edythe —" Mam- ma says that my ances- tors lived in castles and palaces. Did yours?” Polly—"1 only have one aunt's sister, and that's my mam- ma.” “Mamma, you remember Captain Jimmie of our base-ball nine, who took dinner with us? Well, he says he liked us so much that he is going to bring his folks to see us.” WHAT SHE MEANT. . sWHAT did you do at Sunday-school?” said mamma to little Bessie, who had attended for the first ti “They asked questions out of the puss -book,”’ replied Bessie. “The pussy- wr book?” asked mamma, : vastly puzzled. “T think she must mean the catechism,” added Mabel, who was several years older. A NATURAL QUERY. THE foot-ball game had been in prog- ress for some time when he arrived and, + not knowing how long playing had been go- ing on, it was quite natural for him to ask, “Is this the first or the second round?” 2, —Oh, this is easy.— COULD TAKE HIS CHOICE. Oklahoma landlord —" Sorry, pardner, an’ all that; but thar hain’t no bath-room in this hotel. I'm sorter figurin’ on puttin’ one in next year or the year follerin’, an’ "—— Hypercritical tourist— Thunder and Mars! I don't want to take a bath year after next.” Landlord (calmly)—* Wa-al, you don’t have to; you kin do without.” = [71S an awfal thing —8, I think I could lay here forever, ies ” not to become a wo- it's so nice. | man when one ceases Za to be a girl. CHOICE LANGUAGE IN THE PARK, Tue swan—*' One thing I'm proud to say—I'm not a quack.” Tix vucK (proudly)—"* Huh! I'd rather be a quackthan spend my life * rubber-necking.'” comicbooks.com