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Show The Size of America. Colonel Abraham (1 ruber Is the master mas-ter of moro Irish Jokes than any other man in Cyrus, Minn. "Micky Flnnigaii, who hnd been an American cltlrcu for about u year and bail traveled about this continent considerably, returned homo to III-hernia III-hernia for a visit. This Is tho way ho described his new country to ono of his relatives: "I'hwy, Anier-r-lea Is so big, bo-gorra, bo-gorra, that If you wero to dr-ag Kngland Kn-gland thr-u tluee states you would'n lnvo a iiinr-k In tho dlr-rt, nn' you could loso Olrland In ono o' thlm gr-rent Inland oceans wo have, phwat wo rail lakes. An' If you had Scotland Scot-land to get lid of, thorn aro n thousand thou-sand eornors ou could lildo her In. an' nobody could toll wheio you had put her except, begorra, for the bad smell o' tho whisky." |