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Show '!"f'ir -'" il inm--. Humane Act A farmer, on his way to town in his wagon, overtook a peddler with a heavy pack on his back. The kind-hearted farmer pulled up his horse and offered the wayfarer a ride, which was gratefully accepted. ac-cepted. After a while the farmer noticed that the peddler kept his pack on his back. "Why don't you relieve yourself of that load, and put it in the back of the wagon?" he asked. "WelL" said the peddler, "you have been so kind to me, and I noticed that your horse did not seem particularly strong, so I thought I would take some of thn load myself." KNEW HER GUESTS Two travelers arrived at the hotel ho-tel and were shown a rather dingy room; "What," said one, "does this pigsty pig-sty cost?" Promptly the proprietor replied: "For one pig, two dollars; for two pigs, three dollars." No Overtime The boss came in early and found his bookkeeper kissing the stenographer. steno-grapher. "Is this what I pay for?" he asked. "No, I do this free of charge," replied the bookkeeper. The Hard Way "Hard work never killed anybody," any-body," said the father. "That's just the trouble. Dad," returned the son, just out of college. "I want to engage in something that has the spice of danger m it." Mean Man "Is this the Humane Society?" inquired the feminine voice over the telephone. "That's right, lady; what's your problem?" "Well, you must do something! There's a book agent sitting in the tree in front of our house teasing my dog!" What Else? "What is cowhide chiefly used for?" a teacher asked his class one day.. A boy raised his hand. "I know, sir. To keep the cow together, sir," was the reply. Mud in Your Eye "My father always proposed a toast before he disciplined me.'" "That's funny. What was it?" "Bottoms up." DOING HIS BIT When he told his parents he had secured a job at the blacksmith shop, they laughed, and said: "You surely don't mean to tell us that a little fellow like you can shoe horses." "No," said the boy, "but I can shoo flies." 'Taint So Easy An angler who had been trying to hook something for the last six hours was sitting gloomily at his task when a mother and her small son came along. "Oh," cried out the youngster, "do let me see you catch a fish." Addressing the angler, the mother said severely: "Now don't you catch a fish for him until he says 'Please.' " JUST TO BE SURE "Does she have her own way?" "Does she? Why she writes her diary a week ahead of time." |