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Show TOO SEVERE A PUNISHMENT Tramp Objected to So Long a Sojourn , In a Town That Shall Ro-l Ro-l main Nameless. A certain town not the one you live In, dear reader, but it's nearest and dearest rival was noted for being dead slow. There was no amusement in the place, not even so much as a moving-picture show, and everybody want to bed at nine o'clock every night because there was no other place to eo. One day a tramp' was caught begging beg-ging in the streets of this town and was promptly arrested and arraigned before the justice of the peace. After hearing the evidence the magistrate mag-istrate put on his sternest look and said: "It appears from the testimony presented here that you are a vagrant without visible means of support. In order that you may not become a charge upon the taxpayers of a respectable re-spectable community I sentence you to leave this town in three hours." "Aw Judge," pleaded the tramp, with a look of abject terror on his face, "have a heart, won't yer? I didn't do nuthin' but ask a guy fer a nickel. Please don't make me stay in dis burg all dat time. Make it three minutes, Judge, can't yer?" |