Judge, 1912-11-30 · page 12 of 26
Judge — November 30, 1912 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The page contains three separate pieces of humor: **"Natural Beauty"** (top cartoon): A guide shows tourists mountain peaks called "The Three Sisters," a straightforward joke about scenic tourism. **"Bill for a Bald-faced Horse"**: The main story concerns B.B. Kelliher, a real chief engineer of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, inspecting remote Canadian construction sites. A horse hired from a Native American owner gets struck in the face by a rock during blasting operations, creating a permanent bald patch. The humor lies in the creative billing: the engineer humorously invoices the horse's original owner for a horse that is now "bald-faced" (marked by a white blaze), naming it after the incident's cause ("Stone-in-the-Air") and charging $40. The joke mocks both bureaucratic absurdity and the ironic situation of billing someone for their own damaged property. **"A Tragic Triolet"**: A brief poem about a printer's error—a writer repeatedly describes cheeks as "red as a rose," but the printer changes it to "red as her nose," creating unintended comedy.
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NATURAL BEAUTY. Guide—" These peaks on our right are called the ‘ Three Sisters.’ You get the grandest view on the trail from here."” Tourist—* They are very fine !"" Bill for a Bald-faced Horse. A few days later the bookkeeper in the engineer’s office was observed in deep study over a bill that a pio- neer clerk had wrestled with long and earnestly. Finally he “‘civilized’’ it thus and gave it to the chief: 'EW MEN have covered more miles of adventurous travel during the last decade than B. B. Kelliher, chief engineer of the Grand Trunk Pacific and oy one of the two best known construction engi- Mr. B. B. Kelliher, Dr., neers on the continent. Not long ago Mr. Kel- liher left the line of rail in the British Colum- bia mountains, in company with a number of contractors, to inspect certain work deeper in the wilds. Mr. Kelliher paid, and has the bill framed. They were to travel with horses, and the James Oliver Curweed. divisional engineer had some difficulty in outfitting his . c chief. At length the horses were secured, and a par- A Tragic Triolet. ticularly fine mount for the chief was hired from an Indi- I wrote it as plain as could be, an. A few days later the party was traversing a section ‘Her cheeks were as red as a rose.’’ where blasting operations were under way, and a rock As an ardent and soul-stirring plea, from a near-by ‘‘shot’’ struck Mr. Kelliher’s horse be- I wrote it as plain as could be. tween the eyes, taking off a slice of skin half as large It appeared, to the printer's great glee, as the chief’s hand. Otherwise the cayuse was unin- “Her cheeks were as red as her nose.’” jured, and on his return to the divisional engineer's camp I wrote it as plain as could be, the horse was returned to his Indian owner. “Her cheeks were as red as a rose.’” to Chief Mud-on-the-Chin. To one Bald-faced Horse, made so by Stone-in- the-Air - $40.00 comicbooks.com