Judge — November 2, 1918 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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CAMOUFLAGE What It Really Was—After a “push” some of the lads of the Northumberland Fusiliers who entered one of the captured villages set about making things comfort- able for themselves. Seeing a large wood- en box some distance away they made tracks to commandeer it. On the way back an officer met them and queried: “Here, lads, where are you going with that?” “This is an old egg-box, si taking it along to our dug-out, s of them explained. “Egg-box be hanged!” retorted the officer. “Why, that’s the general's roll- top desk!""—London Tit-Bits. re you really looking asked the suspicious A Foxy Guy- for an honest man? citizen. replied Diogenes.“ Confi- dentially, I am merely taking this method of letting my neighbors know what I think of them.”—Boston Transcript. Cheeky—Her Father—And so you want to marry my daughter? Young Man—That’s what I said. Her Father—But how do you expect to support her on an income of $1200 year? Young Man—Oh, come now, your in- come must be ten times that amount.— Pearson's Weekly. Born Before His Mother—A cele brated actress invariably claimed to be eighteen years younger than she really was. She was called to the witness stand one day and even there she did not break her rule. It happened that her son was called immedi- ately afterward, and on being asked his age he replied, x months older than my mother.” —Boston Transcript. Definite — Landlady —Just when are you going to pay up your arrears of room rent? Hard-up Author—As soon as I receive the check which the pub- lisher will send me if he accepts the novel I am about to commence when I have found a suitable subject and the necessary inspiration. —Boston Transcript. “Enavant! Fritz! Frivz—Pour moi, Yes, over Wide Awake ‘Too old and alert a bird to be caught that way.—London Daily News. HUNS Only a Dream—“ The kaiser’s dream,” said a Senator the other day, “was a dream of world domination, but he has already begun to experience a rude awakening. “The kaiser is now in exactly the posi- tion as Wash White. Farmer Cornelius Husk heard a noise in his chicken house The German Peace Offensive Liassaus pour la paix’: ard! Fritz! It’s ‘the attack for peace’; just charge, get killed and the war's for me!—Le Rire (Paris). fu marches, tu es tué et la guerre est finie.” one night, tip-toed down with a shot gun, and discovered Wash in the act of filling a burlap bag with chickens. “*Wash, you rascal, what are you doing there?’ said Corny Husk. “*Tt’s all right, suh,’ Wash replied. ‘I'm here on account of a dream I had, suh,’ are you talking about?’ “*Well, suh,’ said Wash. ‘I dreamed I was goin’ to have chicken fo’ dinner tomorrow; but I see now it hain’t true.’”"—Wash- ington Star. In Bad—“ We played fool,” declared the Crown Prince. “I see it now.” “We had the whole world to pick a fight with.” “Well?” “And look at the crowd we picked out.” —LondonTit-Bits. In Pink Pajamas— The Allies have captured some Germans in pink mas, and we don’t know of anything more incongruous than this except a cannibal chief in a silk hat.—Ottawa Citizen, comicbooks.com A dream, you black scoundrel, what