Show tm KER NIL 0 0 C WILBURD D isbit 3 A boy writes asking will you please write a poem in memory of my log a I 1 had him for a long time and he be was a good friend he lie died last week PY A V 7 V V doo C ac friend that had the honest eyes tl TI at would gleam at each kind word or grow shadowed with surprise when an angry X A tone you heard aa do J friend that never tired of play 72 gs 1 willing eager all the while hav i 5 ou found some other way to ga go faring mile on in ley 2 NA dog they say you had no soul that lou jou perished as a clod endless s centuries may ro roll 11 over th s small mound of sod with its rudely whittled board tell ng here lies spot S p t A dog tl TI at you had no soul that soared I 1 J onward through this earthly tog fog tet yet you never told a lie never learned to use deceit never laid a path awry for some fellow being beings s feet never caused a single tear save upon the day you died and A nd they gay say our end is here though eternity is wide we can count a hundred things brave bold things all done by you deeds such as hero c kings had not been ashamed to do most of all though it is fine to recall the heart you had and to know that dog of mine tou you were always always glad dog a dagand dog and that s the end end of comradeship and play listen dog that was my friend if you wait upon the way that leads through the outer dark when my time comes to go let me hear your welcome bark if you ma you will I 1 know ald LD MAN GiD DESi U S the man who has a reputation of being able to take a joke may be one who gets v mad but doesn doean t show it ezra todd after successfully avoid ing opportunities to raise bohemian cats and belgian hares is go ng to invest in a project to extract gold from the sands of the sahara of course you are true to your friends but I 1 ow many times ha han e you stopped discussions of their faults A man who has managed to attend meetings of an ibsen club a shake speare club a browning club and a wagner club last week says that at all of them the topic under discussion was the new wide hats the man who says he sides with the under dog you will notice hardly ever owns a fighting dog mrs lillie alverett Is mad at an ed aitor she wrote and asked him how hove old helen was when troy was burned and he wrote rote back and asked why she wanted to know the man that neier worries Is a good mark for hard luck the p trot has a very small brain which no doubt spares it the agony of thinking about that endless inquiry about the cracker As a general thing the call of duty has a dollar sign somewhere in it man w th the conundrum again here s one you can use any time you ike 1 ke says the man with the glit bering whiskers bending over the desk of the pale plodding slave w th the recalcitrant fountain pen I 1 fig ared this one out last night what is the difference between an army boffl who has been on a furlo agh for sit six weeks and has received an order to retarn rett rn to duty and a psychical in vesti gator who reads the raven to the spirit of his departed anre anee tor what is the difference between a man in an airship and a woman mak ing mincemeat 9 because they both ook look for currants mutters the pale plodding slave oh well if you don t care for any suggestions I 1 can lake take them else w where here haughtily declares the man with the glittering whiskers the answer to mine is that one reads his go to the post and the other reads his poe to the ghost but you can t use it now waiting walk in sir says st peter to he the shade who has been sitting on a cloud tor for several days come right n I 1 told you it would be all right or you to do so thank you replies the shade I 1 want to wait out here if I 1 may until he the fellow who sold me cantaloupes ast last summer comes along I 1 want to see you send him down the chute f |