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This page contains three separate humorous pieces typical of Life's satirical content: 1. **"The Vernacular"**: A dialogue joke between two gum-chewing girls using exaggerated slang and dropped g's ("Gotcher money?", "Howbout?"). The humor relies on mockery of working-class speech patterns. 2. **"Football Days"**: A poem satirizing college football's violence, describing players being beaten, having teeth knocked out, and crowds of spectators injured. It mocks both the brutality of the sport and spectators' enthusiasm for witnessing such carnage. 3. **"A Butcher's Lad"**: An anecdote about a delivery boy confronting a fierce dog, with a moral about courage. The page also contains advertisements for Wilson Whiskey, a sanatorium for "Drug and Alcoholic Addictions," Esterbrook pens, and Carl H. Schultz mineral waters. **Context for modern readers**: Life magazine (1883-1936) was primarily satirical, mocking contemporary American manners, speech, and social behaviors through humor and light verse.

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THE VERNACULAR. keepsio still has a number of cobblestone-paved FOOTBALL DAYS. streets, relics of the days when Matthew Vassar This was the conversation between the girl > ys have come jaddest of eco ation be fa conducted an orderly ale shop in the basement of THe football days have come again, the gladdest o with the gum in her mouth and the other girl with the year the gum in her mouth: the: court Boute One side of Wilt F 4 Tom bas lost . e bs temblea-ecew , ; ne side of Willie's nose 1s gone, and Tom bas los ae toe Kemble's crew won, and after doing the event pps Justice to a late hour he and his friends started fcr the station along one of these narrow and cobbly —‘eaped on the feld, the players jab, and punch and claw, and tear. not gone far when a large io ke a . dog jumped over the fence somo distance behind Th€Y Knock the breath from those beneath and gougo without a care; ian ay ie Ntencc ware. Canchoow them and came furiously in thelr direction. The | . aA . Yeh Gotcher moneys ee SAH?” — Harty hastened thelr pace, with the exception of THY Dreak each other's arms and legs, and pull eon mble, who vowed he would stand bis own, and to 4, Joints out of Place. iia * this end stepped into the street and tried to pick up And here and there Is ono who gets bis (eeth kicked vy. Gotcher aptite from bis face. Yeb. Gotehoors? one of the cobblestones. He failed after several Yeb, Howbout piace crosstrects* attempts. The dog was coming closer. The freshman and tho sophomore, besmeared with icininv tect there: doasgueroand-corcer, “Great Carsar!" ho suddenly cried, straighten- ime ond fud “Thattledoo zwell zennyware. Mighta thoughta 9S UP and taking to bis heels; “this is a deuce of Go gallantly to get the ball and quit all bathed tn tantuiet pubtihi a town—where they tie up the stones and tura the blood : *IGn eettlatte, “Gute dogs loose !"—Saturday Evening Post The senior knocks the junior down and kicks him "Yeh. Didn'cheer me sa: it? fn the chest, The high school bey Is carried home and gently laid at rest, While here and there a crowded stand collapses eath its weight, and held them, one in each hand, before him on the Ang forty people get more than they paid for at : rraduatiog tab) tho gate. ing the graduating class. “Look at both of these steadily,” said be, “and i —Chicago Record-Herald. he said. “you are going out Into eraqually move them In opposite directions. Pres- the world of action, You wiil Ikely follow in some — Eitiy they will pass beyond the range of vision, degree the example of those who have preceded you. nat is due to the blind spot. Continue the move- Among other things, you may marry. Let me en- ment, and the coins will again emerge to view. treat; you toube: Mind tovgour wives: = es: patient Then the philosop ‘nd naturalist bad bis with 1G Do not fret under petty domestic — jittle joke, “You can experiment for yourself at When one of you asks your wife to 69 home," said he. “But if you are unsuccessful, try do not worry if she is not ready at the somo other object instead of a coin. Some people ey Have a treatise on your specialty pave no blind spot for money.""—Newe York Tribu ya with you. Read it while you wait, and I on it assure you, gentlemen,” and the professor's kindly A nercien’s lad went to deliver some meat When the horses got away Clancy stood in the smile seemed to show a trace of trony, “you will be at a house where a flerce dog was kept. The lad grandstand watching them through bis field glasses, astonished at the vast amount of information you ered the backyard, when the dog at once pinned Some of his friends, knowing of his ten-dollar bet, will acquire in this way.""—Exchange against the wall. In a minute or two the mis- crowded about and began to joke him. ‘Where's tress of tho house ran out and drove the animal off. your horse now?" Clancy was asked. Wares the intercollegiate boat races were held “Has he bitten you?" sbe asked Clancy surveyed the field carefully. “I can't at Poughkeepsie thi rE. W. Kemble, the * said the lad. “Aa kept Bim off by quite make out,"" he replied, “whether he fs last in well-known illustrator, went up with a party of giving him your suet; an‘ yo just cam’ in time to tho third raco or first in the fourth."—Saturday friends to root for his favorite co Pough- save the beef.""—Exchange. Evening Post Less go neet.” go one places nuther.” Ee De. Josern Le Contr was an authority, COR: baa nized by the world at large, on the sclence of vision. ven. One day he was showing a class how to detect the “K'mon."—Chtoago Tribune blind spot in the human He took two coins FESSOR of a noted medical college was A ramous New York character 1s Michael Clancy, a contractor who has become rich. Recently Mr. Clancy bought a string of race borses and en- tered some of them at the latest Saratoga meet. ch y races his horses for the fun of it and the purses and rarely bets. One day, toward the close of the meeting, he had a horse entered that seemed to have so excellent a chance that be bet ten dollars Live Is for sale by all Newsdealers In Great Britain, The International News Company, Bream's Building, Chancery Lane, Lo B.C, England, A Established 1823. E ae WILSON mercer | _terbrook CARL H. SCHULTZ ) guarantee of its excellence WHISKEY = = ' [THE NAME CARL. scHULTZ Bee\ Inflexibleff No. 322. 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