Judge — November 18, 1916 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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“Mother, look at the horse with feathers on its le; to fight with me a whole week before I *Pagliacei.” and other play with a bar berin it. 1 \ bought a li Wj bretto for a } quarter, and Bi the thing we sec double bill for one ticket some foist in it was an other argu ment —like we didn’t haye enough already. We skipped it to avoid trouble and we couldn't catch on to what was going on ull the curtain was commencing to move for the end of the foist act. Lopened my libretto to the end of the foist act too maybe [ll understand something—and I read that Canio was saying ‘Sing and lx merry!’ I looked up and saw a man biting another feller’s car off. The next morning I read in the papers that they didn’t play ‘Pagliacci’ at all, but ‘Ca valerie Russiana.’ The bill was changed! Nu, Henry, does it pay to spend good money, when you don’t even know what you're getting “Henry,” continued Markowitz after a long pause, “I don’t think Til give in yet. ['ll try one thing more. Maybe it will work. [ll buy her the diamond la- velier what she’s been dying to get. If you got to do it, you got to doit. It's woith even a thousand dollars not to kill my health and my pleasures a whole winter! Anyway, diamonds is always woith the money!” Saying which both boss and bookkeeper departed for their noon-day refreshments The morning Markowitz looked so dejected and miserable, that at first Henry curbed his curiosity as to the ultimatum, How ever, he was unable to restrain himself very long and finally as “Nu, what did Minnie say to that diamond la following the outcome of velicr “It’s no use talking, weiher will be weiber!” mournfully replicd Markowitz “She kissed and she'll be ashamed no more to go to the opera me, said Her diamonds will be so good like the next woman's!” His Pudding yassah!” remarked Brother Quackenboss. “ Brudder Kink am pow- ful well off. He's got three mighty fine fiddles, nine likely child’en de peartest passel o° dogs dat a body ‘most ever seed, a deaf and dumb wife, and no triflin’ kin-folks to borryin’ off'm him. Den, he has a way o’ callin’ a white man *Cuhnel’ in sich-uh tone dat he gits all de striped pants and checkered vests dat a self-expectin’ pusson could nt. And if dat nigger ain’t dess nach'ly one o’ de Lawd’s anointed, den, sah, I'll be dag-gawn if I ever witnessed one come it a Buff Cochin?” Interchangeable Example: HE FLY lays a thousand The hen but on Yet een sadder would breakfasts become, Ti the hen were done. The hen takes @ thousand rests, The fly takes none we but teach each to work ¢ the other one! —Lee Shippey. His Reticence The subject of white slavery —~" “Pardon me.” said skimpy lithe Mr Meck, “but TE prefer not to talk about my condition.” “What is your doggie’s name?” Ginger.” “Does he bite?" No, sir. Ginger snaps! comicbooks.com