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OSCAR DEMONST IN LITTLE OLD NEW YORK By Norman. ' (The Junior Office Boy Tells of the Mistake That Aunt Jemima Made.) n. y., friday this is a Iittel true storey that i tho't was very comikel, it hap ened over in brooklin the people that it haperied to have a verry nice old lady living with them, tier name is aunt Jemima', and she was good to them in her yodng. er days so now they give her a home - but aunt jemima she aint the kind to set down and draw a pension, no sir, not her, even if she is -about 80 yeres old and kind of deef and cant see verry good, she wants to ern her board just the same t they got a conservatory with flowers into it, and aunt jemima said she would water the flowers every morning so they let the old lady get away with it, it made her feel like she was part of the works, and the flowers "had to be watered by sumboddy On acount of her hot seeing verry good, she surnames dident hit the flowers she was aimin at, and it too kthe servent g'erl longer moppin up the flore than it mite of took her to water ,the flowers, but noboddy minded that, as long as aunt jemina was happy s also out in the conservatory there was a old parrot in a.' cage, about twice as ola as'aunt jemima. HISS NOONtY PRACTICING 'JSS SHOung. Results, aoolf. J3c:r LAST FBW 3U.CS YOU PITCHED HT A LIDDte CUKFE. tBO YOU 331NK couiT Keep )j up I SUE3S SO x vsett to. IS r ( - Ju? YO well, this old parrot he ust to it hang up in his cage and watch Hf., aunt jemima waterin the flowers every morning btlt a cuppel of days ago sum boddv left his caee settiner on a table, and bimeby there was theV aernaest nonerin ana SKwawkm ' . . , .. . ' ana tne nttie aauter ot tne ian ily abouL.8 yeres old she run out into the conservatory to se what it was, and she holered -o somebody please come quick, aunt jemima is watering the par rot johyn 0V0 ' ' "t'm ground down by poverty." Can t you keep the wolf from the door?" -I "Why, I'm so poor he wont come to the door ;.&s-.