Judge — December 31, 1898 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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

A HEREDITARY TENDENCY. Here, ‘Rastus! how offin mus’ I tell yo’ ter leabe dat little chickin on der Chris'’mus-tree alone?” * Why coan't yo’ leabe Aim alone? He cain’t help reachin’ fer dat chickin no maah dan yo’ could help reachin’ fer it if it was hangin’ on anodder kind ob a tree. . a A POETIC SET-BACK. Sing a song 0° sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened . The birds, they didn’t sing ; HIS MERRY .CHRISTMAS. The cat got there first, you see, It i ream Gist, ; was a beautiful vision Jaggsy had for just a minute, d ‘And the laugh was on the king. of his childhood days, and pote Hoem the Christmas eres as of ae CHRIS AND ENDS. Sacher Attain Lite BP Ga Rew ork. COPYRIONT I8BB BY ARKELL PUBLISHING COMPAKY OF EW YORK \ \ comicbooks.com