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Show The Best Substitute I Bridget was before the magistrate , ipon the charge of beating her hus- ' land, who stood near the desk with lis head bound up in a mass of bandages and surrounded by an sdorous cloud of Iodine, indicating hat ho had undergone extensive .reatment at the hospital The mag-trate mag-trate called the wife to the bar of lustlce. "Now madam," he said, "can you 'xplain to me why you struck your jusband over the head with the oker?" Bridget laid her hand on the bar ind leaning far over so she could mpress her anawer upon the atten-livo atten-livo officer of the law, replied: "Shure, I hit him with the poker, rour honor, because at that moment couldn't lay my hands on the troomstick that I most generally isea." ; "Because I Couldn't Lay My HandG On The Broomstick That I Most Generally Uses." |