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Show Drastic Action "Can you fix up this yur clock so's it'll run?" inquired Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. "' reckon so," replied the jeweler, examining the sadly dilapidated timepiece. time-piece. "How in the Sam Hill did it get in this condition?" "The presiding elder was at my house tuther night, and he said he'd read that every time the clock ticked a baby was horn and every third child was a Chinese. My least hoy, Bearcat, Bear-cat, heered him and said by-gosh he'd stop that foolishness, lie up with my pistol before I noticed he had it and poured the whole blame seven shots into the bowels of that there clock." Kansas City Times. |