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Show THE RUBE IN THE CITY H The alfalfa delegate was paying his first visit to a city of any size, and H chanced to see a sprinkling cart com- H ing down the street. He no sooner had H set eyes on the thing than he began H to laugh like the boy at a minstrel H "Say, old pal!" he remarked hilari- f H ously, punching a cop in the ribs, M "don't that just beat all?" "Don't what beat all?" responded ( ! the wandering cop, "What's the l H joke?" ( "Just look at that feller on that fl wagon!" replied the alfalfa pavty, !H pointing to the sprinkler. "That H denied chump won't have a drop of H water left by the time ho gets home!" 'H fl |