RECREATION. 



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Mention Recreation. 



.MAUD AND THE JUDGE AGAIN. 



Maud Muller jumped on her time-worn 



bike 

 For an evening hit at the dusty pike. 



An old drop frame of a 'way down gear 

 With a rattle the sleeping dead could hear! 



The judge came pounding along behind, 

 Out airing his great judicial mind. 



He noted the figure neat and trim 

 And graceful motion of hidden limb. 



And he said to himself in his grave de- 

 light: 



"Whatsmatter wi' u Maudie? She's all 

 right!" 



He drew beside her and asked her flat 

 Why she rode such an old ice cart as that? 



And she said saleslady could ill support 

 Such wheel as the judge of the district 

 court. 



He told her she could on a chainless ride. 

 With a diamond frame, if sheM be his 

 bride. 



Or if she would bust up his solo life 

 They would tandem together as man and 

 wife. 



Maud bit at the bait like a hungry trout, 



And the old judge smiled as he yanked 

 her out! 



They ride on a tandem now, of course, 

 But Maud has to work like a treadmill 

 horse! 



For the judge has learned how to sit and 



shirk 

 And let his darling do all the work. 



He weighs two hundred and fifty-one, 

 But the poor girl thinks it an even ton. 



And she often says with a pain-rent heart: 

 "I wish I was back on my old ice cart! 



"Of all true words that I ever spake, 

 The truest are these: 'He's a bloomin' 

 fake!'" 



— Denver Sunday Post. 



A subscriber writes this on his renewal 

 notice and returns it to this office: 



You can keep it; you know damn lit- 

 tle about hunting, and I don't want it — 



see 



F. A. Taylor, Jamest»wn, N. D. 



When you hear an animal squeal like 

 that you can tell to what species he belongs 

 with your eyes shut. 



