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=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—What is a sculptor?—=_Cant E. Lope_=.
A man that makes faces and busts.
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=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—What is dust?—=_Hose Ette_=.
Mud with the juice squeezed out.
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=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—Is hair tonic a good drink?—=_J. Fewbrains_=.
Would advise you not to drink hair tonic as it will raise a mustache on
your appendix and if you should laugh you would tickle yourself to death.
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=_Dear Farmer Bill_=—Please inform me where milk comes from.—=_A City
Girl_=.
From cow faucets.
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=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—If my father was a duke and my mother was a duchess,
what would that make me?—=_Watts D. Yoos_=.
Why, I guess you would be Duke’s Mixture.
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=_Dear Captain_=—Tell me something interesting about auction
bridge.—=_Adeline Moore_=.
All we know about is Brooklyn Bridge, and that is just one long suspense.
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=_Dear Capn._=—What did my beau mean when he told me he would meet me in
the future?—=_Sarah Desert_=.
Probably he meant in the pasture.
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=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—What is a drydock?—=_Torchy_=.
A physician who won’t give us prescriptions.
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