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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 23, 1901 
Humorous. 
There was a young lady of Lynn, 
Who was so exceedingly thin, 
That when she essayed 
To drink lemonade, 
She slipped through the straw and fell in. 
—Credit Lost. 
Sue: “Marriage is a lottery.” He: 
“Not at all.” She: “But it is.” He: “Oh, 
no, it isn’t. A lottery is forbidden to the 
mails.”—Detroit Free Press. 
will,” re¬ 
deceased, 
hear that 
“He was a man of strong 
marked one friend of the 
“Yes,” agreed the other; “I 
even the heirs despair of breaking it.”— 
Philadelphia Record. 
Teacher: “Anything that is transpar¬ 
ent may be easily seen through. Now, 
Emma, you may name something that is 
transparent.” Emma: “Any kind of 
key-hole.”—Fliegende Blatter. 
“My daughter had a quiet wedding on 
account of her husband’s recent bereave¬ 
ment.” “Has he lost a near relative?” 
“Yes, his first wife has been dead only 
six months.”—Chicago Record. 
“What mo’ kin I ask?” said the col¬ 
ored citizen,—“de co’n ’s in de crib, de 
cotton is a-pickin’, de ’taters Is all bank¬ 
ed, en de ol’ mule don’t know dar ’s a 
mortgage on him!”—Atlanta Constitu¬ 
tion. 
Tess: “I notice you’re encouraging Mr. 
Youngman. I thought he proposed to 
you some time ago and you said, ‘No.’ ” 
Jess: “That’s so, but he gave me a lovely 
camera for Christmas, and I—er—well, I 
decided to retouch the old negative.”— 
Philadelphia Press. 
“I’m glad to hear,” wrote the old man 
to the youth at college, “that you favor 
the sun bath as means to Health. When 
you come home vacation time I’ll give 
you 15 acres of it, behind a spry mule, 
with not a tree to cast a shadder on 
you!”—Atlanta Constitution. 
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