Show I Mabey Says Maybe Comma Is Useful But He Doubts Doubt It ft Representative Charles B. B Mabey labey Republican Re- Re publican of Davis Dads count county i is the N I enemy of the comma Any Auy time Mabey ra cy cycan can an get ct a grip rip on the tail of a co comma commale ma mahe he le twists twist it until tho the poor punctuation nation mark squeals for mercy I I I move that the bill be amended d by striking out the comma between the tho words words and aDd on the blank line is the most common expression voiced b by him bim As a comma annihilator annihilates i is in Ina a a. class by himself in in the lower house Any craft crafty little dot with w-ith a Q turlin curling tail that may think it can can evade Mabey's 5 eye has another guess guess and and some me trou tron tron trouble ble coming Mabey Mabe has good c eyesight eli bt If h ho were troubled by hosting Heating pe before the loves eyes each one would nave nave vs a l wriggling crooked ta tail J. J And then Mabey jabey would woul not bo boo content until be ho had bad caught each individual speck and anti pulled out its ite tail or until ho he had eliminated tb the sp speck ck al together Semicolons do not worry Mabe Mabey a great deal and p periods give w him no concern unless they are not Dot frequent ut enough in their appearance He Heo would o ld have the period follow the enacting cause causo in nearly e every ery ry bill that is pros pic pro pre s Mabey holds that a comma comma- is not a point o of ord order oder r and that it should be classed classel ell with germs genius of tetanus Tho only be he has to tadpoles tadpole is s that th they y look like commas He lie says that when he was a n. boy he could not tolerate the si sight bt of ot tadpoles or pollywogs gs because of or of their re resemblance to that detested punctuation mark Two things are arc almost wholly boUy useless uso use less les ho he says say ono one i is the which the surgeons remove and the theother theother other is the tho comma commit which should ld seldom sel eel ibm dom bo ho used Im I'm aga against t the comma first last and all aU tho time |