I saved the lives of four hundred people.

* * * * *

Lives of ’skeeters all remind us,

While short skirts are all the go,

That to them existence must be

Just one great big burlesque show!

* * * * *

=_Yes, Gus, ’tis sad but only too true that in Georgia the peaches grow

on the limbs while at the beaches—but why break the monotony?_=

* * * * *

The hired hand, Gus, went to town the other night to a dance. When he got

back he said that “nothing stands between certain dancers and pneumonia

but a sense of loyalty to their employers.”

* * * * *

_Oh, Myrt, do you know Aurora Borealis? They say she was all lit up last

night._

* * * * *

No, Geraldine, Sandy Hook is not a Scotchman.

* * * * *

I was walking down the street the other day and on the far side was a

fellow who looked familiar. “Hello, Bill,” I says. “Hello, Tom,” says he.

“My name ain’t Tom,” I says. “Well, my name ain’t Bill, either,” says

he. With that, I looks at him an’ he looks at me an’ sure enough, it was

neither of us.

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