| Show i 1 I Stories That Have Point j I A HU HUNTING TING STORY A AN N old backwoodsman that Abraham Abraham Abra Abra- ham Lincoln ham Lincoln often orten told toM of or had very heavy overhanging eyebrows and ard wor big spectacles with brass rims One day lay he hc came rushing into his cabin and seizing his rifle aimed It carefully through a crack of thedoor the tho the door at a great oak tree tree that that stood near and fired What Is It whispered his wife Ife A wildcat Salt Sairy he said aid excitedly edly an I missed him him He hastily loaded and fired again and then again Now hold on Joshua said his good wife Let me look at you ou i Why I laws a ws-a-dal ws Its It's but a i little bu bug on one Olie o your our eyebrows I Housekeeper I SU SILL SHE U UNDERSTOOD D STOOD OW 01 t-l t will ivill P our eggs H H yo you have your asked the girl behind the lunch counter With as brier briet an Interval of time answered the ab minded absent m n cd d professor r as as p possible intervening between n the deposition of f the thc oval o spheroid in hI the receptacle by hy the female representative e of ot the tle common or barnyard barnyard barnyard barn barn- yard varlet variety of at domestic fowl and the subsequent appearance of oC the same in tho the marts of or commerce where congregate congregate con con- grega to the theAll theAll the the- All right the girl I think I underStand Scramble three Chicago Tribune n l I f fI I PRESENCE CE OF MINI MIND laP JOHN Ar ALLEN LEN of ofA A Tupelo Miss tells this one on u I-u himself I Court had been in session in Tupelo Tupelo Tupelo Tu Tu- Tu- Tu pelo and there were a lot of visiting lawyers lawers They were congenial souls and naturally a little game of or poker started down at the tho hotel I stayed out for tor I several nights but lut finally the breakfast table arguments got ot so I pointed e that hat I T had to Promise to be in that e evening by 11 U When n ii o'clock came I cleaned up and could not leave leavo a winner winner- that would ld have been snide so smilde-so e- e so o I stayed S to tc give elve the boys a chance to get e-ct their money mone back Also there W was plenty of the thc sort of drinkables prohibited b by ia law w in Mississippi Mississippi- Finally 1 y the game same broke up and I looked at th the clock It was 2301 I started for home making tho the best besl time I could coul 1 slipped off oft In my shoes at the front r steps Pulled or off m my cothes In the hall ball slipped into the bedroom IK and a began to slip sUp into bed with the I case of experience Mrs Allen has a blamed dog that nn on the colt cold b bed d 5 nights In Insists on Jl jumping Pin Pin- ln in With us So when I J began bean to slide under tie the covers coers she Rhe stirred in her hor Get v. v sleep e Jand an and Pushed me on the head said down Fido Fido- Fidot get t down she sIte And gentlemen I Just did id have presence ot of mind enough to lick her Ier hand and she dozed again again again- II CosmoPolitan Magazine 1 POST PRA POST rr HE dust begrimed I Ithe T THE tramp saw J- J the good lad lady of ot the house pottering pottering pottering pot pot- about in lii the garden sarden so he approached approached approached ap ap- ap- ap her on the subject of alms And where have you ou been and how do you OU live Jive she asked Well ell ell maam ma'am IYO ivo been all over the world worl world Europe Europe Asia ia Africa America and have had hart a most varied aried experience in the tho chase of the thc elusive meal Ineal Then my man you ou should have haye an Interesting stor story to tell tell Quito right maam ma'am but I am essentiallY essentially es es- es an dinner after-dinner sneaker speaKer Sporting Times rimes MISSOURI HUMOR lIEN HEX Christine W NII Nilsson Nilwon son made undo her concert tour in the United States in iii 1881 1884 Signor Brignoll sang with her He caused cause much merriment morn merri ment mont when ho came forward in a Missouri town to ap apologize for Nils- Nils indisposition Madame Ia ame Nisson ees eS a horse ho he said ald Nothing a ripple of laughter laughe the audience lenco among au he repented repeated the statement statement statement state- state ment that Nilsson was k a hor horse e a le horse little hIttl colt Whereupon hereupon a facetious occupant nf or the gallery hi brought down the hou house e b by remarking Well then wh d ont dont n t you trot her out out lit r |
