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Show M RAVINQS By CHICK. Willie says his cussed hat blew off and rolled down the gutter for a half a mile. This all happened last Tuesday. Tues-day. I told him that was nothing it might hnve rolled 15 feet farther than that if he hadn't caught it. The boss says that the way some of the kids around here hang around the back of this printshop, and pull old paper and clutter out oftherubbish bnrrels, ypu would naturally think that this shop was a million dollar institution in-stitution nnd that we planted at least a V. three times a day in every barrel. Maybe we do, but the kids are welcome wel-come to it all if they will invent something some-thing to get it out with without pulling everything out nnd planting it from the back door to tho back fence nnd from the tabernncle to the park. Think ahead boys to when you will all be old men. It's bad on the back. Slim came into the office Inst Monday Mon-day all excited and in n terrible rage. He said that one of our aged and respected re-spected citizen caught him in a crowd nnd commenced to massaging him with soft words in Scottish nccent all about that article in Inst week's paper about the hotel. He said that we made it look like everything wasn't goin on all sweet and sercine in financing it. He even hnd the nerve to say that he was going to spend 20 cents for papers and send them out to friends, but he chnnged his mind when he saw that article. We knew different though so we didn't worry about the sale of four papers. And then besides if Wo had said that every thing was going along without n hitch and that every canvasser had to take nn adding machine ma-chine to keep track of tho subscriptions subscrip-tions of stock we would hnve been by this same said gcntloman called for all the liars and one thing another all the way from the post office to his residence. re-sidence. And then ho would havt told us how we lost 20 cents through telling a lie like we did. Oh! aint this a cruel old world? Oh! boy! and they let 'em live nnd breathe liko us. There was a littlo hen and she laid a lot of eggs; She hatched 'em into chickens with feathers on their legsl Tho chickens grew to pullets, as such liko chickens orter, And each sold down in the market for two dollars and a quarter. |