Life — November 2, 1905 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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Beyond the Speed Limit. LTHOUGH he ate so fast at first, J so unmolested, stion by and by Was suddenly arrested. Wanted, a Dragon. country is happy enough to [' any possess a good old-fashioned, flame- breathing, —tail-lashing, dragon, the United § at the man to hunt him, arcity of dragons in these years of grace pr the misfortune of heing born too Tate; in-eating tes has The s ves, nd, when dragons were plenty, the mentable absences of periodical liter- ature gaye the champion no oppor- nity to tell his own tale. He had to nid on some carcless old chronicler, as like as not, told it wrong. It art-rending to think that not a -LIFE- le dragon-slayer ever had the felic- a capital 1. d, the distinguished ity of seein On the other Nimrod who now recounts for us his slaying of bears and wolves must sigh at heart for deadlier beasts to conquer, Why, we were brought up from infaney We learned to spell in tender childhood the on stories of bears and wolves tale of the brave boy who, armed with a stick, or the kitchen poker, or his father’s “old flint-lock musket,” killed se beasts in defence It is hard lines to be all the seven champions of Christen ‘one or other of th of a lite sister ¢ nothing but bears and The first S! dore killed his dragon like a man, and dom, and 1 wolves to fight stands on top of it, reared, column- above the great Venetian square. r in hand, and halo on Pf “wren THe SMOKE OF BATTLE vA HAS CLEARED AWAY ROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC, FROM THE GREAT— LAKES TO THE GULF ** “VICTORY wite PERCH UPON OUR GLORIOUS BANNER’? SNAPSHOTS IN HADES. CAMPAIGN ORATORS GRT A DOSE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE. stands, forever glorious, because he found a dragon to demolish. The blithe St. George, when he felt in the mood for sport, went for the fieriest dragon of his day, and slew it just before supper time, being thus enabled to hand back the rescued and blushing supper to her father. And if circum- stances did not permit him to write an account of this exploit in the Cappa- docian Monthly, or the Coventry Re- least had his picture taken, in beautiful armor, and grouped effec- tively with the dragon. So are we all familiar with his glory, and a great fighting nation has linked its name with his. It is enough to disgust one with modernity. Its limitations are so ob- vious. Combine a good dragon with a printing press, and what might we not obtain? Algnes Repplier. Relief. TT" = moment the nurse turned her ack the rich baby ran over and kissed the poor baby frantically, “It’s such a relief to get hold of somebody who isn’t sterilized,” he ex- claimed, in baby talk, for he spoke no English. “TL understand, old) man,” the poor baby, indulgently. rejoined Mere Man. IS doctor said he stitution; His friends nerves of stecl: His uncle an iron con declared that he had ght he had a wooden head; The girls all said he had a heart of stone; red that there was more brass to him t While o sand, And his admirers maintained that Il wool His enemies de rs said he had a lot of was nd a yard wide. § had diamonds in teeth w her ears seashells, her hair was strands of burnished gold; and she had her eyes; her pearls, her lips were rubies, were delic her skin was of velvet roses in her cheeks. Verily, veril and wonder they were mysteriously y made! comicbooks.com