Show t 1 OR-OEO'S OR WEEKLY JOKE Understandings That Were Misunderstandings Misunderstandings Misunderstandings Mis Mis- understandings among the Mosquitos Mosquitos Mosquitos Mos- Mos of le or Tommys Tommy's sue t Prayer Tom Tommy my Jones a little codger in epitome was kneeling in apparently humble supplication and beautiful thanksgiving thanksgiving thanksgiving thanks thanks- giving before his little crib whispering whispering whispering whisp whisp- ering in an undertone the nightly prayer that his kind mother had taught him to say when but a child His loving mama just then passed by the open door and as she saw her pious little darling kneeling with clasped hands she muttered to herself with a motherly smile of inward satisfaction Ah yes I an am sure that Tommy will someday become a great minister of the Gospel of T Jesus esus But Bu the good mother did not know what thoughts Tommys Tommy's little thinker was manufacturing at that moment When he had said Our Father which art in heaven he stopped and wondered wh why Jesus knew so little about grammar as to use which for who Upon saying Give us this day our daily bread he wondered whether Jesus didn't like pie and cake and what a funny man he must have been if he As the little fellow whispered Forgive us of our debts his naughty little mind made him wonder whether that since we are to expect God to forgive us of our debts it would not be all very good for him to expect Jimmy Smith across the street to forgive him for the debt of ten cents which had never been paid II Lead us not into temptation temptation tion raised in him the thought that it must it-must must then have been the devil himself who led him into the pantry that afternoon and the recollection now came that he did smell brim brimstone tone when stealing a abit abit abit bit of the forbidden fruit This made him im hesitate another minute with the idea that if if the apple which Adam and abd Eve ate was asgood asgood as asgood good as the apple jelly in the pantry why then hed he'd be darned if hed he'd blame em em fer em But at this moment the li little le infidel felt a piercing pain on his neck He wasn't quite th through ough with his prayer either for he hadn't asked the Lord to q help I him be kind to mama and papa and sister Jennie He could r resist scratching his neck but to unclasp h his s hands in the midst of his prayer would surely be sacrilegious sacrilegious sacrilegious legious and as a punishment for such a crime what might God not do to him While on the horns of this I 4 dilemma he suddenly concluded r t that at it must be his rascally little sister sticking with a pin asa as asa s l I a practical joke II Gook Lord C he therefore said II please excuse me for about two minutes while I f knock the stuffing out of Jennie r. r With a fearful flash of temper he jumped to his feet and was about to deal tormenting Jennie a rr knockout left undercut when he saw that he couldn't see any Jennie Jennie Jennie Jen- Jen nie in the room to be the i ent of his kindly thoughts But the pain still continued The little littlee brat must f- f J r t r have stuck the pin right int into his z J neck With this gruesome thought he reached round and placed his 1 fingers on bloody a-bloody a bloody mosquito J |