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Show ltd AMERICAN HUMOR.. icr Tub most olivioiw clinracteristic )ld American humor is its power of "pitch ?0t it strong' and drawing' the' long boivv lid is.thelmmor Of exaggeration Thlc ly. sitts of fattening up Joke until it fs cji tund nod rubicund, unctuous, uud irre ok tible as Fulstaff himself, who was crca :cr by Shak$peare, uudfedfutj to as to come for all time. the very inipersouat ho of- humor iti a stato of corpulence. T a't place in tho geography of iho Uiii an States called "Down East" has bceu m prolific iu the monstrosities of mirth. O no there would a tree'd oon have cried ' tho marksman with his gun point n- "Don!t tiro, Colonel, I'll come dow Only in that region do they travel at s.i a speed that the iron rails get hot' euoi: d. to servo the carriages with heat instead lis houwatcr bottles, und sometimes so h he that on looking back you see the in til writhing about like live suakes trying id wrlgglo off to the water to cool tin ut selves. Ouly there do they travel so f that the signal whistle Is of no use ry their cugiucs, because, on one occasion le least, the train was iu, aud smushed a, a collision, long before the sound of 1 whistle got there. Only there can a bl iti be struck so "slick" as to take an anion ts, ear off with such ease that the aniu " docs not know bg Is one car Uiort w lie lm puts his fore foot up to scratch ad Only there, surely, ore the thieves so 'ci he that they drew a walnut log right out of its bark, aud left five sleepy watchers nt nodding as they 'sat nstrido a tunnel Icr walnut-wood rind. iYerfA Briliik j |