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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
When a man reaches the top of a stairway 
and attempts to take one step higher, the sen 
sation is as perplexing as if he had attempted 
to kick a dog that wasn’t there. 
There are two things which a wise mau 
never tries to do. The first is to shave himself 
with the razor which his wife nses upon her 
corns, and the second is to convince her that 
a razor is not improved by being sharpened 
on a butcher’s steel. 
Colonel Ykrger has just been paying a 
number of bills which his hopeful son, who is 
a student at the University of Texas, had con¬ 
tracted. “I had no idea,” said the old man to 
bis son, “that studying was so expensive.” 
"Oh, yes, it costs money.” replied the youth, 
“and I didn’t study very hard either.” 
"Lavin’ eout another railroad?” "Survey¬ 
ing for one,” was the reply. ‘‘Goin’ threw my 
barn?” "Don’t see how we can avoid it.” 
"Wall, now, Mister, 1 calkerlate I’ve got sum- 
thin’ tew say ’bout that. I want yon to under- 
stan’ that I’ve got sumthin’ else tew dew be¬ 
sides runnin’ out tew open and sbet them doors 
every time a train wants to go threw.” 
"Look here, Mati'da,” said an Austin lady 
to the colored cook; "you sleep right close to 
the chicken house, and you must have heard 
those thieves stealing the chickens.” "Yes, 
mam, I beerd the chickens holier, and I heerd 
the voices ob de men.” "Why didn’t you go 
out, then?” "Case, mam,” bursting into tears, 
"1 knowed my ladder was out there, and I 
wouldn’t bab him to know' that I’d lost confi¬ 
dence in him for all the chickens he could steal 
in a whole year.” 
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