I suppose it’s because they’re taken out of the nest too soon.

* * * * *

=_Dear Capt. Billy_=—A story in a New York paper says a dancer has

insured her legs for $125,000. What’s the idea?—=_Lew D. Fiske._=

We don’t know definitely, Lew.

* * * * *

=_Dear Skipper Bill_=—What war material did Chili export to the Allies

during the war?—=_Clara Voyant._=

Beans.

* * * * *

=_Dear Bill_=—If you’re a good little astronomer I know you’ll tell me

what star was recently measured, and found to be of enormous size?—=_May

Triatit._=

Fatty Arbuckle, I guess.

* * * * *

=_Dear Captain Willy_=—A waiter in the Waldorf Flaskoria spilled hot soup

down my neck, and when I remonstrated with him, the horrid old thing

only snapped his fingers at me. Have you any words to describe such

creature?—=_Ferdie Nann._=

Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 24, September, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy · 第 24 / 81 题