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An excellent record of the early development of certain Western cities
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A Story of Adventure in Florida.
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A Story of the Mines.
A bright, vivid, and often thrilling tale ... graphically
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Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.
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[Illustration: MR. COIN. "I AM NOT FEELING VERY WELL THIS MORNING."
MR. OLD BLADE. "OH, CHEER UP, OLD MAN; WE ALL HAVE OUR DULL DAYS."]
* * * * *
WHY SHE DIDN'T SMILE.
"Why are you pouting to-day, Jennie dear? Aren't you happy?"
"I'm very happy," said Jennie.
"Then why don't you smile as you generally do, and show us those pretty
little white teeth?"
"That's just it. They ain't white. I've been eating blueberry pie."
* * * * *
DISCONTENTED SAMMY.
DISCONTENTED SAMMY. "I wish I was down at the sea-shore instead of up
here in the mountains."
JIMMIEBOY. "What would you be doing at the sea-shore?"
DISCONTENTED SAMMY. "I'd be wishin' I was back here."
* * * * *
A GREAT CLIMBER
"Do you do much climbing, Harold?" asked the newly arrived guest.
"Well, in a way I do," said Harold. "Papa climbs all over the mountains,
and I climb all over papa."
* * * * *
JIMMIEBOY'S DESSERT.
It was at dinner at the Profile House.
"I'll have some blueberry pie and some ice-cream," said papa.
"You may bring me some jelly and cream-cakes," said mamma.
"And what will you have?" asked the waitress of Jimmieboy.
"I'll have the same," said Jimmieboy.
* * * * *
A POPULAR FEATURE.
"I just love it here," said Bobbie.
"What do you like best about it?" asked the good farmer's wife.
"You haven't any bath-tub in the house," said Bobbie.
* * * * *
Two brawny sunburnt sons of Ireland met each other on the street shortly
before an eclipse of the sun.
"Hallo, Pat! are yez goin' ter see the 'clipse?"
"Faith, Tim, oive no tiliscope."
"Oi wonder at yer ignorance. Go home an' smoke some glass if yez want
ter see it. That's as good as all the tiliscopes yez can git."
"Shure if that's all yez have ter do, that's aisy enough."
Some hours later Tim was passing down the street when he espied Pat
sitting on his stoop staring at the sky and madly pulling away at a
short stump of a pipe from which no smoke issued.
"Did yez see the 'clipse, Pat?" he called out.
"Nary a bit of wan have I seen. Is it over?"
"Over? Sure; an hour ago."
"Well, then" (and here Pat hurled his pipe out into the road), "it's all
the fault of that glass. Oi must have smoked the wrong kind."
* * * * *
It is said that the sagacity and memory of the elephant exceed those of
any other animal. This is very possible, as in the many cases reported
the incidents bearing on these two particulars surpass those of other
animals.
One of the recent stories related of an elephant's astuteness contains
an element of doubt, but the comic side of it makes up for that
delinquency. It seems that this particular native African was an attaché
of a travelling circus, and part of his performance consisted in sitting
on a stool in front of a piano and producing some hideous discords
called music. One day, having hit the instrument heavier than usual, he
irreparably smashed it. A new one was purchased, but when the elephant
took his place on the stool as usual he absolutely refused to do his act
and groaned very miserably. He was led out, and after a short time the
manager entered with this excuse:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I regret that the disobedience of Jack has caused
you a loss of pleasure; but unfortunately the poor fellow discovered
that the ivory in the keys of the piano came from his mother's tusks,
and he couldn't play for grief."
* * * * *
AFTER EXCITEMENT.
FARMER. "Come down with me. Jack, and I'll show you the cows."
JACK. "Hoh! Cows ain't exciting to anything but girls. If mamma'll put
my red suit on me I'll go look at the bull."
* * * * *
WALLIE'S IDEA OF IT.
"Papa," said Wallie, "I wish you'd buy me a shovel. I get awfully
thirsty in the daytime."
"What on earth has a shovel to do with that?"
"Well, somebody told me that on farms when you wanted water you had to
dig a well."
* * * * *
A GOOD THING TO BE.
"Wish I was a squash vine," sobbed Wilbur, after he had been punished
for trampling down the corn. "Squash vines can run all about the garden,
and nobody complains."
* * * * *
A SMALL GIRL'S DISCOVERY.
"I know why it's such fun to play in the hay," said little Anne. "It's
because hay tickles you and makes you laugh."
End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, August 11, 1896, by Various