Show the I BY 8 O J MAxSON FOXHALL J j THE CATASTROPHE By Daisy Baker Hay You'll be a at this I think It Is a true cat story t The very best one I believe f fIn In all the cat cat-agory A cat called on a beaver once Please tell me pretty sir air What will a cat-amount cat to to if 1 1 Hes He's sold at so much purr j Search me tho the beaver said I cant can't Get that quite through my ray dome Well then said Pussy where can I IGo IGo Go buy a comb cat-a-comb And If hard thinking over that Makes l you a trifle weak I know where we can get a drinkA drink drink- A nip cat-nip so to speak The The beaver yawned tremendously c And right here Pussy scored In someone's cat I saw v Another beaver board beard At that the beaver gave a look t That should have made her shiver And shouting Well I will be dammed I J He Jumped into the river Hurry 1 Girls Girl's Father Ho hum Well WeIl I guess Ill I'll smoke a cigar and then go to bed Impatient Suitor Here Herel Have Hay Havea a I The Latest Did you know Georgette has sued her husband for divorce No On what grounds grounds' e 4 Radio cruelty She wanted to jj j listen In on music and he always J turned In In on prize fights and ball games C. C. C. C C. C 1 1 How Hove It Happens Country Cousin Cousin- I suppose you ou J city people never see anything green City Cousin Cousin- Oh yes we do do- do lots of ot c country people visit the city 1 3 you know knoW Rudie Rudie L L. Jj ONE ON THE FISHING CLUB I IBy By Dr Walter E. E i In In the spring of 98 I bet the i president of the La Tuque Fishing club dub In the province of Quebec J 4 1000 that In four tour days I could 1 catch eatch every fish In the big lake 1 f without using rod reel hook line Une or net He took me up of course My ry fy method was simplicity Itself j From Emile Blanchet the head forester forester forester for- for ester of the region I procured three i 1 sticks sUcks of dynamite in exchange for forI fora J a package of I set off my dynamite at the edge j i I of ot the dam of the lake blowing a a J ten foot hole In the rim through which the water naturally flowed I The time was early May when as 1 every fisherman knows all game arne fish swim up stream As the lake dwindled the trout fought madly to keep In the diminishing water watercourse course At the end of at the third day all that remained of ot the lake was wasa a thread of ot water seven miles long covered by a mound of or gasping trout Driving over the lake bottom bottom bot bet tom torn In a truck I gathered up the fish in a shovel and the wager was won The rich part of ot the incident is this It had cost the club to stock the lake and they could not hope for another generation of trout for three years at the least Consequently Consequently Consequently Con Con- all the members resigned In a body In addition there was was' the cost of rebuilding the dam about I do not recall the exact figures but I r know that the 1 president and I had a hearty laugh j over It afterward 1 It wa was a good one on us Walter Waltel Wal Wal- t ter tel he said and It came near being be be be- ing the last one too i iThe The Verdict Judge Judge- Did you or did you not steal this mans man's cow Prisoner I did not your honor The cow Imagined she sho was a bull bulland bulland bulland and chased me for two miles right to my very house Judge Some bull J. bull J G G. Cra Crawford I I I I THE TRICKY COUN COUN- J TER Applied Reading I took a good book To by little son Frank My Iy work I r forsook And took this good book To him in m a nook On books Im I'm a crank I took a good book bool book book- And gave gaye him a spank Naomi Nelson S S S SIt It Has Happened She sa saw sai- sai him come as in a trance Much pleased was she that he had I spied her So he could ask sk her for tor a dance She saw him come as in a trance What girl would not leap at the I chance To dance with handsome Mr Sn Snyder der den She saw him come eom as In a trance trance- And ask the girl who sat beside her hert Gertrude A A. Parry Just as we had bad deeMed decided that radio was going to keep hubby home nights they invented the portable set |