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"WHY, MANDIE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR DOLL?"
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"BUT WHY DO YOU HAVE HER DONE UP IN THAT EXTRAORDINARY WAY?"
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MAMMA. "Why, Harry, did your teacher send you home?"
HARRY. "Yes; she wanted to give me a set of books a fellow used last
term, and I wouldn't take them, 'cause he got all there was to learn out
of them."
* * * * *
TEACHER. "Why, George, John tells me you knocked him down. Did you?"
GEORGE (_happily remembering one of his lessons_). "No, marm; it was the
force of gravitation that made him fall. I only pushed him."
* * * * *
FATHER. "Now, Tom, you should know how to defend yourself. You see, this
is the first position, and so. Now don't be afraid; strike out with the
gloves."
FATHER (_fifteen minutes later_). "Confound it, how was I to know he had
been taking lessons at the school gymnasium."
* * * * *
PHILOSOPHY.
WALTER G. NICHOLS.
A puppy who had chased his tail
Around the livelong day
Quite unsuccessfully, was heard
Unto his tail to say:
"I s'pose you think this quite a joke
To lead me such a chase,
And make me show my master now
A disappointed face.
"But though this is for you more fun
Than me, just wait a few
More years, and then I'll be as good
At 'wagging' as are you!"
* * * * *
A TIMELY QUESTION.
HORACE. "Father, why do they 'prefer charges' against policemen for
acting improperly? Why don't they make 'em pay cash?"
* * * * *
Some years ago linemen were stringing a telegraph wire through a rural
district, containing inhabitants that seldom came in contact with the
outer world. A resident of the place, an old farmer, more curious than
his neighbors, put many questions to the linemen, and after a while
gained some confused ideas about its use, principally one, that the wire
was put up to send messages on. Wishing to send his son John, who lived
in the city, a pair of new boots, he thought it would be a cheap way of
doing it to hang them on the wire--and this he did. Shortly after, a
tramp coming along saw them there, and as they fitted him, he took them
and left his own in their place. The next morning the old farmer seeing
the tramp's shoes went about among the neighbors telling of the
wonderful wire and how he had sent his son John the new boots, and John
had not only got them, but had sent his old pair back.
* * * * *
TEACHER. "Tommy, how dare you waste your drawing-paper--covering it with
ridiculous pictures?"
TOMMY. "I didn't need the paper to draw on, 'cause I was drawing on my
imagination."
* * * * *
TEACHER. "Now suppose there were five boys going skating, and they had
only three pairs of skates; how many boys would have to look on?"
BOY. "I know; the two that got the worst of the fight."
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THE GREATEST OF THE LOT.
"I'm George Washington," said Kenniboy.
"I'm Napoleon Boneyparte," said Russell.
"I'm ME," said Francis.
[Illustration: TOMMY DREAMS AFTER EATING THANKSGIVING HASTY PUDDING.
His grasp it constantly eludes, this pudding sweet and pasty,
For as you know, as puddings go, this kind is very hasty.]
End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, November 12, 1895, by Various