Life — January 21, 1909 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Caught Alive A New Yorker, ” experience, big game hunter of many y lion shooting in Uganda. He bad excellent luck ly every day he posed in a complacent attitude beside a freshly killed lion and his photographer snapped him for the magazines One afternoon the photographer, who was tak- ing a nap in the hut, was awakened by a loud noise. He rose and looked out. Sprinting toward him from the jungle, hat gone and coat tails flying, came his chief, and with terrible roars ind growls a huge lion bounded at his heels. The photographer gazed spellbound at the strange and exciting picture. His chief, perceiv- ing him, shoute “ Quick, quick! Open the door, George! I'm bringing him home alive! '—Washington Star. Where the “Good 'Uns” Were One of the mottos which, though good, are rarely applied, is “A place for everything and everything in its place.” A writer in the Dundee Advertiser tells of a London cab-driver who seemed to think that affairs were ordered after this pattern, As he swung down the Strand, an American sitting beside him asked him to point out the spots of interes “Right you are, sir!’ agreed the driver, touching his hat. “There's Luggit ‘ill, where they ‘ang ‘em."” A little later, “There's Parliament ‘ouses, where they make the laws wot does it, across the way. An’ there's Westminster Habbey, where they buried the good ‘uns wot didn't get ‘anged!" Ay old Kansas citizen, who had been hen- pecked all his life, was about to dic. His wife felt it her duty to offer him such consolation as she might, and sai ohn, you are about to go, but I will follow you." “I suppose so, Mand; said the old man weakly, “ but so far as am concerned you don’t need to be in any blamed hurry about it.""—Argonaut “1 SAY, GEORGE—DID YOU EVER IN ALL YOUR LIFE SEE A SCARECROW AS PALE AS THAT?" First Farmer: H'lo, Hiram! goin’? Srconp FarMer: Goin’ to taown to git drunk, an’ gawsh haow I dread it!—Boston Transcript. Where be you Unconscious Contempt A colored woman of Alexandria, V trial before a magistrate of that town charged with inhuman treatment of her offspring. vidence was clear that the woman had se- verely beaten the youngster, aged some 9 years, who was in court to exhibit his battered condi tion. Before imposing sentence, his Honor asked the woman whether she had anything to say. Kin I ask yo’ Honah a question? the prisoner. The Judge nodded affirmatively. “Well, then, yo’ Honah, I'd like to ask yo" whether yo" was ever the parient of a puffectly wuthless cullud chile? ’—Lippincott’s. inquired The Bishop's Reply Captain Foretopp tells a story of a certain noted divine who was on his steamer when a great gale overtook them off the Oregon coast. “It looks pretty bad,’’ said the Bishop to the Captain. “Couldn't be much worse, Bishop," replied Foretopp. Half an hour later the steamer was diving under the waves as if she were a submarine and leaking like an old door. “Looks worse, I think, Captain,’ Bishop. “We must trust in Providence now, Bishop,” answered Foretopp. “Oh, I hope it has not come to that,”” gasped the Bishop—The Wasp. said the Tue Suxpay-scuoot Tracner: And now, chil- dren, can you tell me, when Balaam and his ass conversed, what language they spoke in?" 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