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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
June 17,1911, 
HUMOROUS 
“Had a puncture, my friend?” The 
chauffeur looked up and swallowed his 
feelings with a huge gulp. “No, sir,” he 
replied, “I’m just changing the air in the 
tires. The other lot’s worn out, you 
know !”•—Idea. 
Mother: “What are you doing, Har¬ 
ry?” Harry: “I’m countin’. You told 
me when I got mad to count 100.” 
Mother: “Yes, so I did.” Harry: “Well, 
I’ve counted 237, and I’m madder’n 
when I started.”—Harper’s. 
Bobbie saw some puppies for sale. 
' “How much are they, Mr. Brown?” he 
politely asked. “Two dollars apiece,” re¬ 
plied Brown. “But I don’t want a piece 
—I want a whole dog,” explained Bob¬ 
bie.—Chicago Daily Socialist. 
Farmer Silow : “Well, that beats all, 
Abner! How do you get your hens to 
lay so?” Farmer Kluckman: “By this 
here new-fangled thing they call Sug¬ 
gestion. There’s a phonograph in my 
chicken-house that keeps cacklin’ all the 
time. Hear it?”—Puck. 
“In addition to giving your husband 
the medicine,” said the doctor to the 
patient’s wife, “I wish you would see 
that he gets a shower bath every morn¬ 
ing.” The woman looked worried. 
“But doctor,” she asked anxiously, 
“what am I goin’ to do the mornin’s we 
don’t have no showers ?”—Chicago 
News. 
“It was a terrible sensation,” says the 
man who is narrating his experiences 
while almost drowning. “After I went 
down for the third time my past life 
flashed before me in a series of pictures.” 
“You didn’t happen to notice,” asks the 
friend, edging forward with interest, “a 
picture of me lending you that ten dol¬ 
lars in the Fall of 1898, did you?” — Life. 
“I wonder why the soldiers are in 
Texas?” began the patrolman affably. 
The man sitting next to him in the car 
appeared to be surprised. “I didn’t 
know there were any soldiers in Texas,” 
he said. “Didn’t know there were sol¬ 
diers in Texas?” said the officer. “Say, 
give me your name and address. You 
will be wanted on a jury one of these 
days.”—Buffalo Express. 
“Dug ’em out of th’ ground?” ex¬ 
claimed the old gentleman from upstate, 
looking at the case of vases from Her¬ 
culaneum. “Yes, sir,” answered the at¬ 
tendant. “What, jist as they be?” “Per¬ 
haps some little pains have been taken 
in cleaning them, but in other respects 
they are the same.” “Pshaw!” muttered 
the old man, turning away. “He can 
say what he likes; but, by gum, he can’t 
fool me into believing ready-made vases 
were ever dug up out of th’ ground!”— 
Metropolitan Magazine. 
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The 
Modern 
Wagon 
OUR BOOKLET 
When the Going is Bard 
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We tell you why a wooden wheel is 
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Farmers 
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The i "BOSS” POTl I TO DIGGER 
Has nev¬ 
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We can 
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ALL DIGGERS, 
and today 
is in use 
by the 
best 
potato 
raisers in 
the country. It weighs about 500 
pounds, and is easily handled by 
TWO HORSES. It is so adjusted that 
the operator can dig every row and 
deliver them on one side of the field, 
making them easy to pick up. It 
will dig an uneven surface, and on side hill as well 
as on the level, making a complete separation of 
the tubers from the soil and the weeds. It is mado 
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DIGS ALL THE POTATOES 
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