Show 4 Lf rr f fOUR 1 r 1 J OUR OUE BUDGET OF FUN SOME GOOD JOKES ORIGINAL AND SELECTED flotsam and Jetsam from Funny Papers Very Flowery Joke The Joke The l Ie Messenger Boys The Doys-The The Bloomer Girl Is II Now Suing for tor Divorce f I The Deacons Deacon's Explanation The congregation ny nya bYa Dy bY a vote decided It was best beat That It and Deacon Homily should take a summer Bummer rest So at the country meeting-house meeting they locked the entrance door And shut the windows close and tight for tor bout two months or more The deacon was a preacher that with mus muscle le did expound And for tor gestures animated through the country was renowned His unction and his bis earnestness when warmed up with his theme Some Borne slumbering member oft aroused from out a pleasant dream Down on the pulpit he would bring his fist with mighty stroke And like the wind through forests was his voice when he spoke And with both feet teet In number hed he'd stamp upon the floor And rant and pitch and shake the house from pulpit to the door But while the deacon and his flock enjoyed enJoyed enjoyed en- en Joyed their summer rest New-comers New took possession of at the house and sacred desk They built a nest right under where the deacon kept the book A id undisturbed they reared a brood within the sheltered nook Vacation past the deacon came with vigor vigor vigor vig vig- or to renew The fight with Satan and the world and world and full tun was every pew His theme was love within the heart heart- and Just to drive It home He pounded hard upon the desk and ont on t the e sacred tome Electrified his hearers headers were he roused the h hornets too And they began to crawl and buzz with this experience new They took as gage of battle there the the- deacons deacon's gestures wild And up his pants in numbers now the angry Insects filed flied He stood It for a moment more till tin they began to sting sUng And then he gave his legs and arms anns a mighty awful fling And shouted to explain the cause of at all his extra rants rants- The love of ot God Is in my heart heart but but h h l 1 fires fire's in my pants pants' G. G W. W Doneghy In Burnside Ky Free FreeLance Lance |