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He was quite an extended church talker, 

 And his prayers too were exceeding long; 

 But his voice was a cross betwixt muster, 

 A grunt, a groan, and singsong. 



He handled his prayer book with veneration 



And his Bible he treated the same; 



But he was a " hog " among hogs when he 



happened 

 To get out on the hills after game. 



'Twas the same when he went on the water 



In quest of the bass or the trout; 



He'd never return to his moorings, 



Till he'd hooked all there were to come out. 



And his end was a cheerful (?) reminder 

 For the " hogs " with whom he passed as a 



light, 

 For returning one night with a boat full, 

 He sank with his load out of sight. 



Ed. E. Kimball. 



Young Mrs. Torkins was almost in tears 

 when her husband came home. 



" What's the matter? " he inquired. 



" It wasn't my fault, Charley, dear, and I 

 do hope it can be mended. That pouter 

 pigeon you brought home " 



"Well?" 



" I'm afraid it has swallowed a tack and 

 got a puncture." — Washington Star. 



I've thought as in church she His goodness 

 has hymned, 

 " Can a merciful deity hark 

 To a woman who prays 'neath a hat that is 

 trimmed 

 With a ooor, murdered thrush or a lark? " 

 — L. A. W. Bulletin. 



" I see," the editor said, " that you have 

 rhymed ' again ' with ' rain.' " 



" Yessir," the office poet assented. 



" Well, it doesn't go. It may be all right 

 in the weather report, but you are hired as a 

 poet." — Cincinnati Enquirer. 



Jamaica, with its ginger, might become 

 desirable territory if this country ever got 

 cramped elsewhere. — Philadelphia Times. 



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