Whistling to Hades

Two girls from the city were spending their vacation in a small town in

the middle west, and at the house where they were stopping was a devout

old man who believed that the blue Sunday laws should go into effect

full blast. It so happened that the girls were in the parlor one Sunday

morning, playing the popular airs, when the devout sir entered and said:

“Do you know this is Sunday?”

“Sure, what’s the big idea?”

“Do you know the ten commandments?”

“Well, if you whistle the first two or three bars I might get them.”

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It isn’t the things we’ve won and possessed that fill the coffers

of life to overflowing. It’s the things we’ve lost, the things that

make for sweet memories. That’s the sum and substance of life that

endures—memories and their lessons.

* * * * *

This is March, the month when the wind is tempered either to the lion or

to the shorn lamb, and soon the grass will be green and the wind will be

tempered for the silk-clad calf. Oh, boys, I’ll say we can anticipate!

* * * * *

When the ball bearings of the new association of nations get rolling

smoothly, we understand that Jerusalem will be given to the Jews, Ireland

to the Irish, Iceland to the icemen and New York City to the United

States.

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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 18, March, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy · 第 68 / 76 题