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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MAY 24 
tynmovous. 
Sure of their crops—Hens. 
A difficult point to grasp—The end of an 
eel's tail. 
Advancement of learning—Moving the 
schoolhouse. 
A Bov always goes right to the core when he 
gets hold of an apple. 
The man who owns no land is one of those 
spoken of as the unterratied. 
What does a promise about giving up 
smoking generally end in?—Why. in smoke. 
A GOAT ought to be a first-class material 
for oleomargarine. There is no better butter 
thun the goat. 
“Yes, Miss Frost, I always wear gloves at 
night; they make one’s hands so soft ” Miss 
Frost’ “Ah! and do you sleep with ycur hat 
ou ?” 
“1 am troubled with cold feet,” said Fender- 
son. “I always sleep in my stockings in Win¬ 
ter.” Glancing at Fenderson’B number thir- 
teeus, Foggs remarked: “1 should think you 
might do it easily.” 
“Yes,” said the level-headed school boy, 
‘Tin at the foot o’ my classes, and calculate 
to stay there. Then I don’t have to stand the 
wear and tear of anxiety for fear I’ll lose my 
place."—Boston 1'ost. 
Groom— “What are you doing, my love?” 
Bride—“Making out a list of flower seed which 
1 want you to order for our little garden.” 
“Oh, yes; so I see; but, my love, you want 
the flowers to bloom this summer, don’t you ?" 
“Why, of course.” “Well those you have put 
down do uot bloom until the second season.” 
“Thut, is all right!” “All right?” “Yes; I am 
getting the list from a last year’s catalogue.” 
“Dar am nulliu which ruins a nigger more 
suddener,” said Uncle Nash, solemnly, to his 
eldest hopeful, "dun de custom of visitin’ hen¬ 
roosts In de full ab de moon, it am well ’uough 
to tackle de watermillyun patches wheu de 
queen oh night am sailin’ rouud in short neck 
an’ low sleeves, becnz de squawk of a twisted 
watermillyun vine am not. like de squawk oh a 
red-headed roosterer wheu you done pluck him 
out oh de hen-patch. But take de roosterer 
when de moon am on de half shell.”—Detroit 
Free Press. 
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