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Show Hannibal cross the Alps, my little man? My Little Mab For the same reason rea-son as the 'en crossed the road. Yer don't catch mo with no puzzle. Sydney Syd-ney Bulletin. Knew from Experience. Maud Jack is one of tho nicest boys under the sun. Ethel Yes, but he'a ever so much nicer under the moon. Boston Transcript. Trans-cript. Going the Pace. Mother But what did you do with tho penny I gave yoo. yesterday? Tommy I sent it, mother. A feller fel-ler has to hold up his r-nd with the rest of tho boys Brooklyn Life. Her Haunting Fear. Bridget Time brings many changes, Nora. Nora Indeed it docs. Bridget Whin I was littlo 1 usd tn cry for fear the policeman would get me, and now I cry for fear I won't get the policeman! Harper's Bazar. JUST FOR FUN Young Commentators. In a Sunday school address a teacher teach-er quoted oddities from a number of children's Biblical compositions that had been submitted to him in competition compe-tition for a prize. Among the morv whimsical oddities oddi-ties were: "Manna ia being polite." "Jerusalem was surrounded with walls to keep in the milk and honey." "Jacob was a patriarch by trade. In them days people lived on corn, like horses do now. They always called pudden and porridge messes. Jacob could eat a good mess, but E3au who was the eldest, could not eat as much as you might think. Tho pa-trlarch pa-trlarch Moses never ate nothing except ex-cept when thero was a famine." Tlt-Blts. Tlt-Blts. Quest of Quietude. "It's a long way to lcKk forward." said Mr. Cumrox. "but I constantly find myself wishing tho Fourth of July would come round again." "Is life too slow for you?" "I should say not. Mother aud tho girls are getting up lawn parties aud afternoon teas and sailing trips and motor excursions and a lot of other things. It's getting so that tho Fourth of July seems like the only safe and sane day In tho year. Washington Star. Couldn't Depend On It. Uncle Geehaw I'm agoln' ter take that pesky thermometer back th' fust tme I go tew teown. Auntie Geehaw What air yew agoin' tew take it back, for, Hiram? Uncle Geehaw 'Cause yew can't depend de-pend on it. One day It sez one thing an' th next day it soz sumthin different dif-ferent Chicago News. See Concordance. Mlnnlck I don't find any passage in Scripture that forbids a man to have more than one wife. Sinnick Mi)3t have overlooked this one, then: "No man can serve two masters." Browning's Magazine. On His Guard. Teacher (to new pupil) Why did |