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""mo, it mss 1 t CONSULAR , FREESPORT A man was fishing contentedly-ih a stream near an asylum whenone of the inmates a"p$ared Upon the scene. Sport had been poor, andHhe Bportsmatf was overjoyed when at last he landed tt beauty. HeWafi gas$. ing.with pride at his eateh when the, visitor asked! "Do you sell them fish mister?" "SelT'em?" responded the man. "No i ear. I'm a sportsman, not a flsh monger. I,fish for the Sport of Catch ing 'em." , . "Oh, you do, eh?" remarked the visitor, as. he Molted the capture back into the water. "Well, now you can' have come piore sport catching" that 5on'e again." ' , d" , j o - o ;r He :Do you love me, darling? IShe Yes.' Jack. dear. He f'Jack!" cTou mean "Harold," don't you! She I Of course! "How absurd I am!. I ieepvthirikin'g today's Saturday. LOV.E IN "THE MOVIES'? - Story by Johny. j - n. y., mbnday policeman brady was walking 'along his beatjbjg In harlem and wishing he hadjjbne where the salunes was not blilit so far apart when he sees a crowd mfrdnl&f p. movie, gathered around a yun&man that was makin a speach ' A brady busted into the ctoway and he says to the guy, well,..what la it, young feller, booae or pills" vii . . v neither, says the boob, i'm, ih jove, ' and the lady of my dreams 'is '&Wfe . there, and they won't let me-lii ZH near me, says tne cop, takfflg.the i ; rummy by the eoat collar and stack ing him up against a trolley idle, and what kind of a lady is she oh, she is wunderful, hollers tin feller, and there is yards and; yaf da and yards' of her , . J whoa, baek up, says brady, what kind of talk is that, take that dope gUn 6Ut- Of yOUf poekit this Insttirit and give it to me, that's a nice little' feller - she's flossie b'flannlgan, the most, wunderful aektrffiB on the screed to day ' . and she is olayine In. there, in "the "cowboy's. sweetheart," and 1 just gotta see that film again -and what's more, 4y golly, soon as 1 get the price, line goin out west' and, find that ranch where jthem Sickeners is took, and ask flossie to e mine ' eheerMip, says the bull, the ranch IS in flatbUBh, and if yOU got a filbkel a street ear will take ybu there any ..day now come along With me, you ain't got no permit for giyin a show, and there's a. friend of 'mine downwherer you" see them green lights that grants you to write your name in his auto graft album j- sO he went along, and the crotyd went inside to Bee flossie , johny