Life — June 4, 1896 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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> LIFE: NOTHIN’ TER SAY. OTHIN’ ter say, my party, nothin’ “tall ter say. Folks that’s as mum as I be ginerally has their way. Not manly, ch? Well, maybe, but it's poli- tics, you bet, \ And as long as William gets there the country it can fret. It's tweedle dee or tweedle dum, ta-ra-ra boom de aye, Nothin’ ter say, “~ % good people, hain’t got nothin’ ter say. Nothin’ ter say, my party, nothin’ ‘tall ter say ; I notice when the people rise they ginerally has their way. They may be blind and foolish, and I don’t know but they be, But that part of ther circus haint worryin’ Hanna’n me. The game o’ straddle is a game I reckon I kin play Nothin’ ter say, good people, hain’t got nothin’ ter say. Nothin’ ter say, my party, nothin’ ‘tall ter say, Just waitin’ ‘round an’ keepin’ mum, for that’s the game ter pla’ I'm perchin’ here upon the fence in my ambitious style: It may be gold or silver, but you won't know yet awhile. Just sittin’ here an’ keepin’ mum not givin’ myself away Nothin’ ter say, good people, nothin’ ‘tall ter say. W. McK-n-ly (with apologies to James Whitcomb Riley.) Wantergo Holmes: THEY Se! I WOULD MIND SHARING MY SUPPER WITH THEM. SOMETHING OFF. “AN so O'Flannigan was sint up fer loife, ye “Yis, but his friends do be thryin’ to get his sintence redooced tin years.” UEEN VICTORIA was seventy-seven years old Sunday before last, and her birthday was cele- brated by her subjects all around the world, and by none more zealously than by our neighbors in Canada. Lire does not believe it risks any very biting criticism from any good American when it says that if celebra- tions of the Queen's birthday in the United States would encourage the indefinite recurrence of those anniversaries, they might be compassed in considerable number and with very hearty good will. The good Queen is admired and honored in this country. Long The Boy's First Thought: “MOTHER WON'T BE ABLE TO FEEL OF MY life to her and peace of mind! CLOTHES NOW, TO SEE WHETHER I'VE BEEN IN SWIMMING OR NOT.”