Judge — July 5, 1913 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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“I don’t pertend to say that boys was per- feet in my young days, but I do say that they had to mind their ps and qs as they don't now, and you never heard of such a thing as a ‘boy gang’ goin’ round cuttin’ up the didoes these ‘gangs’ cut up now when they"’ “Why, pa, I guess you forget how you and six or eight other boys used to meet at that old cave up there in the river bluffs and sally forth at night cut- tin’ up your tric! You used to rob hen roosts and watermelon pate and kick on doors, and then run off in the darkness, whoopin’ and yellin’ like a passel o’ Ute Injuns. La, no, you never cut up no capers when you was a boy! What did you call em?” “Well, natchrelly, we had a little fun now and then; but when it come to the devilment boys ‘git into nowadays, we wa'n't in it with ’em, and we “Why, pa, I should call it devilment if a lot of boys dressed up as wild Injuns and went around in the night givin’ war whoops and blowin’ on tin horns and settin’ fire to brush heaps and breakin’ into folks’ cellars to git jer and done all the things I've he Certainly not ! merely been washing a lawn statue. Another Newport scandal ! THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS WHAT Why. Pal” «NO? SIR! In my young days young fellers wa'n’t the rapscallions they are nowadays,"’ said old Abner Twit ter across the table at the grange supper. ‘‘I tell you, we had to walk mighty straight and tumble into bed soon > after candlelight, because” “Why, pa, how you talk!’’ interrupted the gentle= appeariag little wife of his bosom. ‘*When you used to come to see me, I thought sometimes you never would go, and now and then you didn’t until my pa yelled downstairs that iff you didn’t he'd help start you off and’ “Oh, of course, when a feller was doing his courtin’, it was different; but the rule was that he had to be at home reasona- bly early and walk straight once he was there. There was none of the high jinks young chaps play nowadays with their’’—— “Why, pa, I guess you've forgot how you come to have that scar on your left temple! I have heard you tell many a time that you got it at midnight once when you an’ a lot of the other boys was stealing old Eben Dodd's early June apples, and he come out after you with his gun loaded with beans, and you fell from the top rail of a ten-rail fence and cut your head ona dry twig, and it left that scar; and you said you give your leg such a wrench you limped for a week, and"°—— “Well, of course, we did now and then play a prank or tw but it was mighty seldom we broke away from the leadin? strings of our parents, and when they spoke we never answered back, but just toed the mark and'’— — “Why, pa, I’ve heard your ma tell how you was such a con- trary little tike your pa had to keep a hick’ry hangin’ by a string on a nail in some handy place, just for your benefit, and that he had to use it twice a day sometimes, and once you was shut up and fed on bread and water for three days for sassin’ the minister; and I've heard your pa say that ev’ry time you got a lickin’ at school he give you another one when you got home, and'’*—— Heavens! THEY SEEM Neauvow’s gardezer has you and a lot more o’ little tikes done years ago, when you"—— “Pass me that pie, will you, please, Brother Had- ley? Got your corn all in yet, an’ how many pota- ters you mean to plant this year?” Delayed “Guess Brown will be getting married now that he’s bought the house he’s been saving up for so long.” “Not yet; he got a house so far out in the suburbs that he has to save up for an auto,’ The Day After May—I hear that Marie Pauvre threw over young Stocksand Bonds and then accepted him the next day. Fay—Oh, yes! Shg believes in the referendum and recall. The day after she refused him she looked up his rating in Brad- Street's and changed her mind. Proverb Discretion is the better part of virtue. Maz Mereyman ENSE OF SIGHT Harry—Ma, can the new maid see in the dark? Mother—No, why? Harry — Because | beard her tell pa in the hall last night he hadn't shaved. comicbooks.com