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Peru Pertinent and Impertinent 



What councilors attend my ways? 



What ministers are these? 

 Shall I not pause a while to praise 



Mine ancient friends the trees? 



The Voice of the Trees 



For me the hcech Intones her vows 



I'pon the darkening air. 

 And when the stars arc In her bouglis 



I hear her voice in prayer. 



ew buds shall break on boughs of gray. 



And flower and fruit be rife, — 

 "e are the resurrection : yea, 



Hchold, we are the life '. " 



The glory of the elm I know. 

 The maple's Joy is mine : 



In winter silences I grow 

 In kinship with the pine. 



"Though all our wealth of green and gold 

 Be withered and brought low ; 

 Though ne lie helpless in the cold, 

 Kntonibcd In ieo and snow. 



The councilors upon my ways, 



.My ministers are these. 

 Wherefore I pause a while to [iralse 



Mine ancient friends the trees. 

 — Iliihrrt Gilbert Welsh, in the American itngazine. 



The Logical Thing to Do 



Hardwood Manufacturer: I'm going to stand pat on my hand and will call any bet you 



Within the Law 



"A cat sits on my back fence every night and 

 he yowls and yowls and yowls," complained a 

 young lawyer's client. "Now, I don't want to 

 have any trouble with Neighbor Smith, but 

 this thing has gone far enough, and I want you 

 to tell me what to do." 



The young lawyer looked as solenra as an owl. 

 and said not a word. 



"I have a right to shoot the cat, haven't I ?" 



"I would hardly say that," replied the young 

 lawyer. "The cat docs not belong to you. as 1 

 nnderstand It." 



"No, but the fence does." 



"Then." concluded the light of the law, "I 

 think It safe to say you have a perfect right to 

 tear down the fence." — Ercrybody'it. 



Telling the Good News 

 .Mrs. Youngma — "And so my baby got thr 

 prize at the baby show? I knew be would. It 

 couldn't have been o'therwlse." 



Old Bachelor (one of the Judges) — "Yes. 

 madam, wc all agreed that your baby was the 

 least objectionable of the lot." — ,Vcic VoiA: 

 Wevkfii- 



■What Is an Oyster? 



"Now." asked the teacher, "who can tell me 

 what an oyster Is?" 



Sllcnie for a moment, while small brows were 

 knit !n strained cfTorf at remembrance. Then 

 little Tommy's facial muscles relaxed and eagi'r- 

 ly ho raised his hand. 



"I know:" he triumphantly announced. ".Vn 

 oyster is a flsh built like a nut."— i'ier//'<'"///'/i. 



Posted 



■You seem to be very intimate with the Dig- 

 bys. I didn't know you had met them." 



"I haven't met them. 1 patronize their dress- 

 maker." — Judge. 



Error Discovered 



The teacher had wrltiin on the blackboard the 

 sentence. "The toast was drank In silence," and 

 turned to her class for them to discover the 

 mistake. ■ 



Little Bennic Sheridan waved his hand fran- 

 tically, and, going to the board, scrawled the 

 correction : "The toast was ate In silence." — 

 Everybody's. 



Especially 

 Moralist — "The outsider who buys stocks Is 

 a gambler, pure and simple. 



Ticker — "Especially simple." — .tiidi/i. 



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