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Show Hard-Headed. A bricklayer once hired a new helper. This chap was renowned for his bard bead The bricklayer thought he would test him. so the lirst morning, morn-ing, while the helper was filling his pipe at the bottom of the ladder, the bricklayer, up on the eighth floor, flicked a bit of mortar down on his pate. The helper never noticed it at all. The bricklayer took a brick and dropped that down Hang! It landed square on the helper's skull. The helper took hi9 pipe out of his mouth and scowled up at the bricklayer. brick-layer. "Sav!" he growled, '-,o careful where yer droppin' that there mortar! mor-tar! " St. Louis Globe-Democrat t |