Show KICKED poetically speaking tito to kick means to dun with the hatters batters of connecticut an old hasty crabbed nervous batmani fac of the village of B whom well call mr poke engaged a green extract of the country aa as an apprentice in his factory at ithe the erid end of the first month the young man stood in need of funds but not knowing the east least improved way of getting them be opened his heart to a fellow worker kick the boss loss then was waa that worthya wor thys matter of fact reply kick the boss boas repeated greear in astonishment ment 1 la Is that lle ile the tie way you do it ile he was soleil solemnly y reassured reat rear it was K kick ick lck him is it muttered the enra enraptured aured josh aa as be started in quest of his hia employer em loyer by hokey ill do it st strong and no mistake 12 one glance at his hoof would have immediately impressed a skeptically inclined person with the truth of his hia asse tion going into the back yard an hour or FO ro afterward he c sight bight i bt of the long iong looked w for boss in the act of Tending bending over to pick up something if it there was any kicking to be done nw was the time to do it so marching up to the unco unconscious necious man with the air of a person about to do a magnanimous act he drew back his foot and ni with ith all his strength of body and purpose let drive at the tte stooping sto genta pen gen 1 18 rear the c was wag heartrending heart rending the something about tobe p picked ih ked up disappeared to be heard of no more while w ile lle the venerable mr poke shot av head with appal appalling lim velocity veo city any one ca can eaily ea ily imagine the he novel sen fren s en bation experienced by mr poke when he re the shock thock ile he picked himself up shook hig his fist in ili the astonished joshuaa los Jos huas dirty face and emitt d a streak of blue light from his mout mouth hand and small email pieces of flame flom his eyes joshua was not only amazed but crestfallen ile he thought he had done the business poorly made many nany apologies and considerately offered to repeat the dose at the game gama time assuring his bis master that tha in his private judgment a second trial would tend much to his bis improvement in that line strange to relate his mas er disrespectfully declined his services and strang r yet would have proceeded to more violent viol elit elst measures had bad not several workmen attracted by the boise noise made their appearance and anti explained matteis matters to the entire satisfaction ot of joshua and so I 1 quiet again reigned A MIRACLE or lio llo HONESTY NESTY at a party parly one evening seve beve several beveral ral rai contested the honor of ba having ving done the most extraordinary things a reverend was vas appointed soi sot judge cf of their r respective pre one produced his tailors bill with a receipt attached to it A buzz went through the room tbt that this could not be outdone out done when a second proved that he be bad just arrested bib bia tailor for money that was lent him ane dittie palm is his was tile the generous cry w when hen a third put in his claim gentlemen said he be 1 11 I cannot boast of the fets feats of my but I 1 have returned the owners two umbrellas that they left atour house ill hear bear no morel J cried the fhe aston abton astonished labed arbitrator thib this is the very acme of honest itis it ia an act of virtue ot which inemer I 1 never kiely knew any ne capable the prize hoedl cried another 1 I have kave done still more than thao that impossible cried the whole con coa company pany I 1 let us hear bear ive been taking my paper for twenty years and paid for it ever every y year in n advance lie took the prize WHAT is IN A NAME there is a confounded deal in n a name yoh you are at a public dorn darn din dinner S smith mith nith the grocer bays says rice is dawn down erga again 1 z 1 Js Is rice down again asks a minister 1 I am sorry to bear it I 1 was in hopes lopes he had permanently reformed i was speaking loftice of rice the vegetable replies the grocer oh ah ab indeed exclaimed the minister aud arid and I 1 was speaking of rice the animal wool has advanced advance ed sa bays says a dealer in that article has he asi ast asks a military man which way is he be marchi marching i now 1 I was speaking speak inc inZ of the wool cf the sheep is his reply 1 I beg yur y ur parden I 1 supposed you were speaking of orf wool the man inac 1 what is butter worth asks sou son some e one of the grocers butterworth is a hard shell democrat at once responded a politician whose thoughts were wholly engrossed in the coming election this coli confounding founding of names and things is endless and sometime sometimes is ia very annoni g while buchanan was president the potts potta town own bank batik came into existence and out of compliment to him the t otes lotee contained hla hia portrait but of late the bank has rec received elvel elvet io 80 many mutilated notes with the words traitor udas judas iscariot ec e c inscribed under the portrait that it hab has resolved to call cau in n all the notes bearing the likeness ard n r issue new ones it must be te done to abate a nuisance new yolk voik sun NOT MUCK D difference ference TERENCE A certain judge was once obliged to sleep with an irishman in a crowded botelh hotel when the he follows g conversation ensued 6 pdt pat you would have haven ri a long time in the old country before you could have il pt with a judge would you not yes yer honor said pat and land I 1 thir thlik k yer botor hoi hor or would have been a long t mo in the before ved red been a judg too |