Judge — November 19, 1921 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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___¥_ 4 el in / paso en NUTELLA al kth A YOUTHFUL SHERLOCK HOLMES — William Martin, aged five, ran into his grandmother’s bedroom with a small kitten he had picked up in the street, and asked if he might keep it. He also asked if it were.a “boy cat,” or a “girl cat,” as he wanted to give it a name. liis grandmother told him she would find out, and that he might keep the kitten. The next day he burst into the room in great glee and announced, “I named her Mary.” “How did you find out that it was a ‘girl cat’?” his grandmother asked. “Well, replied William, “I watched her, and she washed her face, and she washed her ears, and she washed be- hind her ears, and nobody but a girl cat would wash behind her ears.”— Harper’s Magazine. CANADIAN JusTICE — An Ontario farmer caught a young woman doing a “September Morn” on his property and had her haled before the county magistrate. “What’s the charge?” asked his honor. “Takin’ a bath in the spring, your wusship,” said the constable. The aged dispenser of justice con- sulted a dog-eared copy of the statutes and buried himself in its pages for several minutes; then closing the legal tome and stroking his beard he said Cid ia very solemnly, “The charge is dismissed . : and the miss is discharged. I find that OVERTIME she had just as much right to take a “What’s the matter?” bath in the spring as in the fall.”—Bos- “I have a splinter in my foot.” ton Transcript. “Why not pull it out?” “What? In my dinner hour?”—Kasper (Stockholm). GETTING TOGETHER—Mother—Hush! You two children are always quarrel- Human DissaTisFacTioN — “The When his mother inquired what was ing. Why can’t you agree once in a neighbor next door annoys me inces- the matter, Georgie replied: while? _ santly by the racket he makes with the “Toby bit my finger, and as he can’t Georgie — We do agree, mamma. lawn mower.” learn to stop biting, I bit his ear.” Edith wants the largest apple and so “How about the neighbor on the other —Houston Post. do I.—Detroit News. side ‘of you?” “The way he lets his lawn go with- out attention is a disgrace to the street.” —Washington Star. Coutpn’t Live Up To ItT—*Why did you take down that ‘Do It Now’ sign hanging over your desk?” “T couldn’t stand the way bill col- lectors looked at it when I told them to call around to-morrow,” replied the sen- sitive and impecunious citizen.—Birm- ingham Age-Herald. “i T~\ Vt SHowinc Him How Ir FeLt—Little rgie Tubb got a puppy for his birth- Y present last week. The puppy was just at that age when everything looks good to chew. metimes he bit harder than he should. One morning, several days after the : ‘ : ” celebration of George’s birthday, the “The manager paid Sybil a great compliment. ittle dog came howling from the “How so?” a a. 5 nursery, “He offered her a thinking part!”—London Mail. 25