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Show POME Say it with flowers, Say it with drink; But whatever you do Don't say it with ink. A negro parson was speaking to his flock: "Brudders and sis-tern", sis-tern", lie shouted, "Ah warn you against de heinious crime of stealin' wateimelions." At this pont an old Negro got up, snapped his fingers and sat down again. "AVarfo, brudder, does yo' rise and snap yo' fingers when Ah speaks of watermelion stealin'?" "Yo' jes reminds me, Parson, whah Ah don lef mah knife." When you get to bragging, suggests Dad Gummit, stop and remember that it isn't the train's whistle that makes it travel. When they put GONE TO HIS REWARD on a tombstone they are merely playing safe, and giving giv-ing you two guesses. OLD AGE Always 15 years older than your present age. "No, my boy Friend hasn't proposed pro-posed jvt," said Lena Gonster, "but he has a folder on British Col umbia." |