HUMOROUS 
If the day looks kinder gloomy, 
And your ehances kinder slim, 
If the situation’s puKzlin’ 
And the prospect’s awful grim. 
And perplexities keep passin’ 
Till all hope is nearly gone, 
.lust bristle up and grit your teeth. 
And keep on keepin’ on. 
—Credit Lost. 
Crawfokd: “As you watch those kids 
playing in the snow I suppose you wish 
you were a boy again?” Crabshaw: 
“You bet I do. Then I could catch that 
young rascal who just soaked me with a 
snow’^ball.”—Credit Lost. 
IIOMELEiGii: “Do you know, old man, 
I don’t spend so much money now as I 
did before I was married?” Marks: 
“How’s that?” Ilomeleigh: “Well, I 
don’t have it to spend.”—Melbourne 
Leader. 
Timid Suitor: “I suppose when you 
recall what a handsome man your first 
husband was you wouldn’t consider me for 
a minute?” Pretty AVidow: “Oh, yes I 
would—but I wouldn’t consider you for 
a second.”—Boston Transcript. 
Doctor : “Have you been di-inking hot 
Avater an hour before each meal, as I 
directed?” Patien'c: “Doc, I tried hard 
to do it, but I had to quit. I drank for 
l.'I minutes, and it made me feel like a 
balloon.”—Woman’s Journal. 
AATli.ie was at play in the dooryard with 
his little brother. “Ma,” he shouted, “I 
wish you’d come out here and make Bob 
behave himself. Every time I hit him on 
the head with the hammer he bawls.”— 
Woman’s Journal. 
“Bobby, do you know you’ve deliber¬ 
ately broken the eighth commandment by 
stealing James’s candy?” “Well, I 
thought I might as well break the eighth 
commandment and have the candy as to 
break the tenth and only ‘covet’ it.”— 
Credit Lost. 
“Mother,” asked little Monty, “did 
you hear the stepladder when it tumbled 
over in the sitting-room?” “No, dear,” 
said the mother, “I hope papa didn’t 
fall.” “Not yet; he’s still clinging to 
the picture molding.”—Melbourne Aus¬ 
tralasian. 
A YOUNG SAvede appeared at the coun¬ 
ty judge’s office and asked for a license. 
“What kind of a license?” asked the 
judge, “a hunting license?” “No,” was 
the answer. “Aye tank aye bane hunting 
long enough. Aye want mai*riage license.” 
—Credit Lost. 
Edward, aged four, prided himself on 
his bravery. But when he suddenly met 
a strange dog near his home, he uncere¬ 
moniously fled to the house. Upon be¬ 
ing questioned as to whether he was 
afraid, he said: “No; I just thought it 
Avas a good time to see how fast I could 
run.”—Harper’s Magazine. 
Perhaps the briefest funeral oration 
ever delivered was that of an old negro 
of Mississippi over the body of another of 
his race who had borne a very bad rep¬ 
utation. Lifting his hat and looking 
down upon the coflSn, the old fellow said 
in solemn funeral tones: “Sam Viser, 
you is gone. We hopes yo’ is gone whar 
we ’spects you hain’t.”—Credit Lost. 
His dog was a fierce Airedale, which 
could Avhip, and had whipped, every other 
bow-woAV in the neighborhood. Then he 
clipped his coat. . “Yes,” he said to a 
friend, “the clipping was my own idea. I 
believe it made him look better, but it 
was very awkward for the dog.” “How 
was that?” queried the friend. “Oh, the 
other dogs didn’t know him. He had to 
fight them all over again.”—London Farm 
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