Judge — February 9, 1907 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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LIMERICK LIVES OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS. IS for Boni, who ran a Swift pace in Parisian Till one day the court ruled, ‘0 more gold, no more Gould!" Now he hasn't a Sou—nor an Anna. BETWEEN THE SHIP AND THE SHORE. TWAS during a violent storm that the good ship Mollie Rogers was driven upon the rocks. She was rapidly pound. ing to pieces when the life-savers suc- ceeded in shooting a line over her, and thus the passe! time. Among those saved frém a watery grave was Mrs. Violet Greenough, who, descr gers were rescued, one ata who were ing her trip from the ship to the shore, said, “Tt was the mest terrible experi ence that I've ever had in all my life, nd L could never live through it again, bot the funniest thing happened when 1 was about halfway between the slip and the shore, and you know how my husband has always treated me as if [were nothing but a baby, and the minute T he says [never can stick to what [start out to say, but there Iwas dangling on that little bit of a rope about half way between the ship rt to tell a story he always laughs, because and the shore when the funniest thought suddenly popped into my mind, and Tcan't imagine what should ever have made me think of such a thing there with the waves leaping up like mad, wid things that were bound to drag me down and tear me to pieces, and my hus. band says I'm the most rattle-brained creature that ever walked, any- he always pays all the grocery-bills because he's afraid to nd Twas just about half-way between the ship s you might say between life and death when way, and trust me with money and the shore, dangling I suddenly thought just hut I forgot to say that the captain get how sad I felt on account of my poor children, knowin s if somebody had spoken the words to me. a LE shall never that they'd have a stepmother within ve up hope the moment we siruck the rocks « car, seething waves, but there Twas halfway between the ship and tl ni you never can tell when a rope like that is going to break and let you drop into the roar- ing shore when I Es suddenly thought—really it’s so ridiculous that it seems sometimes as if I must have merely dreamed it—and, A DEAD LOSS. You look worried, old chap! What is the trouble ?"* Jones— Tran over a chap to-day who owed me five dollars.” Sreevre —"* Such beastly luck! do you know, I sometimes think it must run in our family, for my cousin John’s wife's sister was lost at sea, and really such things have been heard of, but of course that couldn't have been the case with me, or else it was because my time hadn't come, and there I was halfway between the ship and the shore when suddenly —and dark ! Oh, it was as dark as a chorus-girl’s past, with me swaying on that little bit of a rope half-way between the ship and the shore, when without ever having had such a thought before in all my life and the rain coming down in perfect torrents, but [didn’t care anything s as wet as I could get before I started, and the mate was one of the bravest men pything for us if they hadn't shot the line over, and about that for I Lever saw, but of course he couldn't have done there I was half-way between the ship and the shore when this ridiculous thought came to me and L don't suppose it could have really been more than a few minutes, but it seemed an age, with men shouting and women screaming and the waves leaping up as if they had actually been alive and bound to have me in spite of all that could be done, and right there in the midst of all those awful things when [was half-way between the ship and the shore I suddenly thought, just as if the words THE UNIVERSAL CHALLENGER Miss Encaceo “Put up your dukes!” had been flashed on a canvas in front ot me, and [shall never forget the queer sensation [had as [realized how ridicu- lous it was to think of such a thing there where [was swaying on that frail litle rope halfway between the ship and. the shore — + Well," L thought “Lhave the breeches on for once, any nd—and way ORROW trouble if will, but don't pay it back. you THE LOGIC OF THE CASE Tue vouxc one—'The old m he wanted to get her off his hands and yet he wouldn’t listen to me when I spoke of marrving her." Tue wise one" Probably that's the reason he wouldn't listen t> you comicbooks.com