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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 4, 1897 
Humorous. 
Mr. Noowed gives a scowl; 
His little wifle’s agitated; 
For at dinner-time the fowl, 
They And, is not deviscerated! 
— World. 
“Hullo I” said the chestnut to the 
robin. “ What are you ?” “ I am a lit¬ 
tle bird,” said the robin. “ What are 
you?” “I’m a little burred, too,” said 
the chestnut.— Tammany Times. 
He: “The scientists now claim that 
kissing will cure dyspepsia.” She : 
“ Well, here’s health to you.” And the 
sound could have been heard a block 
away.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. 
“Tell me, Tommy, who wrote the 
most—Dickens, Warren or Bulwer ?” 
“ Warren wrote ‘ Now and Then,’ Bul¬ 
wer wrote ‘ Night and Morning,’ and 
Dickens wrote 1 All the Year Bound.’ ”— 
Credit Lost. 
“If I had known,” sobbed young Mrs. 
Fitz, “ that you would have been such a 
brute to poor Fido, I would never have 
married you.” “My dear,” replied Mr. 
Fitz, “the anticipation of kicking that 
miserable little beast was one of my 
chief reasons for proposing to you.”— 
Tit-Bits. 
The country clergyman was nailing a 
refractory creeper to a piece of trellis- 
work near his front gate when he no¬ 
ticed that a small boy stopped and 
watched him with great attention. 
“Well, my young friend,” he said, 
pleased to see the interest he excited, 
“are you looking out for a hint or two 
on gardening ?” “ No,” said the youth ; 
“I be waiting to see what a parson do 
say when he hammers his thoomb.”— 
Pick-Me- Up. 
Nature and Temperance. —Temper¬ 
ance Man: “My friend, what I want 
you to do is to throw your whisky bottle 
into the sea.” Old Toper : “ I did that 
once, but the waves floated it back to 
me, and I said to myself if the laws of 
nature worked that way I wasn’t to 
blame for takin’ the bottle again, and—” 
Temperance Man: “Ah, but the bottle 
you threw away was empty. Throw it 
into the sea when the bottle is full of 
whisky, and you’ll find the laws of na¬ 
ture are all right.”— New York Weekly. 
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