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Show THE ANCIENT PASTIME. ! Lives of champions remind us ; We can always trim a crowd, And, departing, leave behind us Pans who groan and growl aloud. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Alwavs watching and pursuing Kale that enters at the gate. It is announced definitely and authoritatively au-thoritatively that Willard will not meet Darcy. It is a startling announcement aside from the fact to at everybody knew it. Exploration has proceeded to such an extent that few spots on this globe have remained unround. Even Walter Camp has discovered that there are portions of North America west of New Haven. AT LAST WE HAVE FOUND SOMEBODY SOME-BODY WE CAN TRIM. There was a feller named Weller, In most ways a regular feller, But ju" poker his game llCGME A Is insipid and tame And he finishes down in the cellar. Charlie White celebrated Christmas Christ-mas by trimming a guv iu Brooklyn. We forget the guy's name. It doesn't sound like Freddie Welsh. It is rumored in fistic circles that J ohnny Coulon, may come back, but not more than half Way. The most famous come-back is Kid McCoy. He came back eight times and lost every decision. Mr. McCoy, however, has retired temporarily from tho come-back game, lie is interested now in come-ons. EVERY MAN" HIS OWN REFEREE. A no-decision battle often causes one to grin. Unless there is a knockout both the fighters always win. OHO. You might as well call off the job And beat it far from here. No law can beat a lady's sob When holidays are here. You might as well go homeward, men, And get your New Year souse. You can't convict a htily when hhe croaks her loving spouse. If yon are married, possibly you will be interested in the ad in one of our contemps: "Daily Household Articles by Henrietta Grauel." WHAT'S THE USE? Or. WHY WASTE THE PUBLIC'S MONEY? (An Unpopular Song.) A lady sat in mourning in a court room dim and hot. She wept in bitter ancruieh for the husband hus-band tdio. had shot. The jury sadly sat and wept a thousand quarts of brine As the. ladv told them how ehe shot her husband in the spine. She loved him as a mother loves a baby on her knee. But he started eating garlic, so she ?hot him tenderly. |