Judge — September 18, 1920 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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i Le Bo es TOUGH i Not a Liar—He had been fishing, but with bad luck. On his way home he entered a fishmonger’s shop and said to the dealer: “John, stand over there and throw me five of the biggest of those trout!” “Throw 'em? What for?” asked the dealer, in amazement “T want to tell the family I caught ‘em In poor fisherman, but I’m no liar n Tit-Bits ay be Impossible—* Gabbleton tells a funny story of how he shortchanged a taxicab driver.” fernal liar “Ak! You xnow Gabbleton?" “No, but I know taxicab drivers.” Kansas City Star Magnified Importonce—“Why do the police insist on referring to you as a master mind?” said the contemptuous colleague in crime. “T dunno,” answered Bill the Burg, unless it’s because I'm the only regular crook the police have captured in a long time and they want to make as much fi over me as possible.”"—IWashington Star How It Was Done—An American griculturist was telling tall tales of big broods of chickens. Twenty chicks from twelve eggs appeared to be quite an everyday event in the States—if the he told were true stori lappen you never see so many as a hundred hatched by one hen at a sitting?” asked a Suffolk man ac the table: The Yankee guessed that he'd never seen quite such a brood as that “Well, [ hev, then, mister,” retorted the Suffolk man. “Down Ipswich way we always fill a barrel with eggs an’ set Uowd henon the bunghole! "— London Telegraph How Do You Account for This? Tue Louis XV neris are MUCH HIGHER THAN THEY Were AND YRT THERE WAS No strike UNore Louris XV!" La Raionnette (Paris) 16 A Victim of Environment Yo THINK THAT IY WE ONLY Russia now, | wovtn reeiar: TARY or THY TREASURY.” —Le R Fair Record—"Has your son gone into business yet?” No.” said Mr. Grabcoin, “but I'm in- clined to be lenient with Jack and let him loaf for several years if he wants to.” “Why so?” He got through college without get ting engaged to a chorus girl, smashing his utomobile and joining the Glee Club.” Birmingham Age- Herald Help!—* There isn’t much I don’t know the Englist long-haired man in the club. “Tl test you,” a friend picked him up quickly. “I'll dictate a paragraph to you.” With an assured air the boaster seized his pencil, but his jaw dropped as he heard “As Hugh Hughes was hewing a vule log from a yew tree a man dressed in clothes of a dark hue came up to Hugh abou boasted and said: “Have you seen my ewes?” “Tf you will wait until I hew this yew tree [ will go with you anywhere in Eu- rope to look for your ewes,” said Hugh New Orleans Times-Picayune The News Direct— never read a newspaper from one year’s end to the other.”” “That doesn’t matter; they've en gaged a maid who's lived in about every family on the block.” —Baltimore American. hose people a MEO FE