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wmBBB&Bmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ?n) 1" ii';i'4niyi n f.n.w'iim.jfih "JAuww fM WOULD OBEY ORDERS The foreman swore at Cassidy for not fully loading up his hod. The hod, he said, "would hold so many bricks and Cassidy must take a full load up the ladder every trip. One morning the supply of bricks ran out and Cassidy, after gathering every brick in sight, found he was still short of the proper number. He yelled to a workman on the fifth story. "What do you want?" asked the workman "Throw me down wan brick," shouted Cassidy, "to make good me load." o o A LOGICAL LUNATIC "Lunatics frequently return amus ing answers," says the superinten dent of a great asylum. "One day a keeper was out walk ing, with a number of harmless in mates, and the party met a pedes trian not far from the railway tracks. With a nod toward the tracks the traveler asked one of the lunatics: " "Where does this railway go to?", The lunatic surveyed qim scorn fully for a moment and then replied: " 'Nowhere. We keep it here to run trains on.' " Youth's Compan ion. o o TODAY'S BELLRINGER Tony, a 10-year-old hyphenated American from sunny Italy, was ask ed by his teacher to compose a sen tence containing the word "disar range." Here is his sentence: "My fadda he coulda not maka do stove light dissa morning and he say, 'Dam. dissa range!' " o o THRIFT! "That's a pretty girl m the other side of the car!" "She surely is, do you know her!" "Yes." "Then why don't you speak to her?" "T will as snrvn as she's naid her mp fare." 1 JOHNNY'S FROM MISSOURI T WO Bings I told my boy Johnny if he'd be good till spring I'd take him. to the circus. Bangs Did it work? Bings No; he said he tried it last year and the circuit wasn't worth it! O 0 r HE HAD IT "Hullo, Tom! What's this I hear about your having some labor-saving device?" "It's true, all right I'm going to marry an heiress." o-o 6abiT(16ab jm, In the cases of certain congress men a little free garden seed covers, a multitude of sins! m S. , jFaasasWi mil HWittiirlfi"iiln'triir ,L ,.. 3iifersw . -t.fr w tinmu.at.