Life, 1913-05-01 · page 20 of 48
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**"Laddie"** (poem with illustration): This sentimental verse celebrates a vagabond traveler and his loyal dog companion. The speaker romanticizes the vagrant life—traveling "old sea-and-sky roads," sleeping in "strange grasses"—emphasizing the dog's faithful devotion. The accompanying sketch shows three figures at what appears to be a train station, with the caption joking about a hasty traveler asking a porter for time to kiss his wife goodbye. The satire contrasts the poem's celebration of carefree wandering with the mundane married life. **"The Dog and the Doctor"**: This editorial commentary notes the Red Cross uses dogs for hospital service, while military surgeons increasingly demand dogs for experimental purposes. The piece satirizes this contradiction: dogs are simultaneously valued as healers and sacrificed as research subjects. The author questions humanity's moral logic in this "competition developed in opposite directions." **"Hoiward" jokes**: Brief dialect humor about wives and shoes appear unrelated to the main content.
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LIFE- Eat of a vagabond, same as me, "E's brother to beggars, an’ friend to a flea; "E's a son of the ‘ighroad, the old sea-and-sky road, The road, that leads out to the far an’ the free! "Ey say it's a wrong road—God knows it’s a long road— But Lor’, it's a song-road to Laddie an’ me. ‘E's blind in one eye, an’ ‘is tail is on crooked; ‘Is legs is too long—a misfortune o° birth; But 'e’s gay as a man an’ ‘e’s true as a woman, An’ twice ‘e ‘as followed me over the earth. "E’s only a dog; but ‘e followed me truce, Wiich the flesh o’ your flesh won't sometimes do; We 'eld to the byways, the old sea-and-sky ways, The ways that lead out to the gold an’ the blue! God knows ey were far ways—an’ stranger than star-ways— But Lor’, they were our ways—so wot could we do? Then ‘urry the Spring! Sweep the snow from the passes! The roads, 'ey are callin’ us far, far away. To-morrow—we'll sleep in the sweet 0” strange grasses, Sleep long, an’ wake slowly, as vagabonds may! | E's a bit of a vagabond, same as me, "E's brother to beggars, an’ friend to a flea; s a son of the ‘ighroad, the old sea-and-sky road, The road 0’ strange fortune that leads to the free! Wire Goop-ny ? God knows it's a long road—but if it’s a song-road, MOW LONG HAVE YOU KEEN MaRnteD? It can't be the wrong road for Laddic an’ me! F. D. B. E Teaveree (hastily): PORTER, HAVE 1 TIME TO KISS MY The Dog and the Doctor r is interesting and instructive to note that the Red Cross Society is employing dogs for hospital service. We recently read that over two thou- sand of these animals are already in use in the German army. They are employed to succor the wounded and to perform other services supplemen- tary to nursing. It is interesting, also, to note that the demand for dogs for experimental purposes by incipient surgeons is on , the increase. When a doctor of repu- tation advertises some alleged new beneficial discovery due to experimen: tation upon animals, this stimulates all of the students all over the country to perform similar experiments. How will this competition, devel- coped in opposite directions, result, and what a satire it is upon humanity! OWARD: Why do you term your “THAT'S A SKRUMPSHUS PAIR 0’ SHOES YO’S WEARIN’, MISTAH JOHNSING.” wife an angel? “YAS, MAH FANCY’S FATHER GIMME THEM SHOES.” Cowarp: Because she’s always ready “cet out!” to fly, she’s continually harping, and “YASSAH. AIL WAS SERANADIN she hasn’t an earthly thing to wear HE SAID, ‘TAKE that,—anp that, Yo" BLACK 1MP—" MAH LUCY UNDPR THE WRONG WINDOW AND comicbooks.com