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Show ! I 111! THE "KNOCKER" IS A TERRIBLE MONSTER We have always had our ideas respecting a "knocker," but we never realized that he was a terrible ter-rible creature until we read the following description of him, taken from The Press Advocate: "After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad and the vampire, He had some awful "substance" left with which he made a 'knocker. A knocker is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew cork-screw soul, a water sogged brain and a combination backbone made of jelly and glue. Where other people have their hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles., When the knocker comes down the street, honest men turn their backs, the angels weep tears in heaven and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out. No man has the right to knock so long as there is a pool of water deep enough to drown his body in, or a rope to hang his carcass with. Judas Iscariot was a gentelman compared com-pared to a knocker, for after betraying be-traying his Master, he had enough character to hang himself? him-self? and a knocker has not." |