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Show 1 Qood Jokes LOTS DOING. "I should think that you would bo pretty loncsomo here," said a summor tourist riding on horseback In the backwoods as he took tho gourd of water nn elerdrly natlvo of tho soil hnnded him from n door-ynrd well. "Wa-al, It hain't so loncsomo as you might think," was tho reply. "Some days thar'a lots doln' 'round hero. Now, you take yistlday. This old yallcr dog o' mlno had tho liveliest tussle with n polecat right In front o' tho houso 'bout nlno in the mornln', nn' I kin tell you thnt tho mom'ry o" that lasted all day. Tho polecat Is layln' over thar In tho woods a llttlo pleco from hero, an you kin seo him If you want to. Then my wlfo killed a rattler four feet long with 13 rattles an' a button on, right thar 'bout whar you aro standln'; an' my darter Mag went out to gother black-b'rles black-b'rles an' had a scrlmmago with a wildcat. Come homo with her dud3 in rags, draggln' tho varmint by tho tall. Sho's somo plucky, Mag Ib. Then In tho nftcrnoon I layed out n mad dog that camo yawpln' down tho road, an' there was two teams passed hero in ono hour, to say nothln' of two fellers nfoot an' a stray cow critter. An' my boy Dob killed a hedgehog, an' my wifo tumbled down collar. Tako it by nn' large, an' thar's plenty doin' hyar somo days, oven if It don't como quite up to Now York, whar you Bay you hall from." Judge. |