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The -Funny Side's Fanny Stories The minister's little girl boasted: # I tn "Every package that comes for my papa Is marked "D.^ D.. _ "And every package that comes for. my papa is marked 'M. D., retorted the daughter of the physician. Then followed a look of contempt from the youngest of the party. "Huh!" she exclaimed, "every package that comes. to our louse has three letters on it— "C. O. D.' " . ,'\u25a0 , MARY U'CONNELL. No. 417 East Fifth \u25a0treat, LeadvUle, Col. Wife — "Why do you always look out of the window, John, when I begin to sing? Can't you bear to listen to me?" . John— "lt Isn't that, but I don't want the neighbors to think I'm a wife beater." JOSEPH U BOTLE. 459 18th Btre«t. Brooklyn. N. Y. Tommy (studying his lessons) — Say, papa, where does the Thames River rise and into what eea does it empty? (CHECKS ARE MAILED THE SATURDAY FOLLOWING PUBLICATION.) . \u25a0-..\u25a0•• - ; . :.;\u25a0\u25a0 .V.' :-;^^M Ten doOars a week is paid for these stories— ss for the best, for the other* $1 or more. Send the funniest stories 'you know on « oostcards to Editor Funny Side, P. o. ' Box 1354, New York, * Utt Papa— l don't know, my boy. IwSSfej- Tommy— You don't know, en? And to-morrow my teacher will lick me on account of your ignorance. E. J. GEBHAN. Tribune. Galveston. Tex. - 7- W ' \u25a0 ' • .\u25a0 '. ' •: " ~ ',-. \u25a0.\u25a0..:;\u25a0\u25a0:\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 ; •\u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0^'r'-f' A Sunday-School teacher having explained to a class of small' boys the . . v nature of thieving and what a thief was. asked the following question: \u25a0•-•\u25a0" .Teacher— Now, Johnny, if 1 put my hand in your pocket and took out five cents, i; what would I'be? . v. Johnny— You'd be a "peach." ..' \u0084 '.""'"iv \u25a0 \u25a0 H.W. BRENT. No. 128 West Thirteenth street. New .Tork: City. . "Rastus," said the , solicitous employer, "didn't 1 tell you not to drink anything stronger than ginger ale?". "Dat'sde word dat> done bother me. : 1 done my bes*. but - all 1 could recollect war de first syllable." \u25a0 ' \u25a0. - .' EVA HENSLET. Lock Box No: 274. Salem. 111. " n >: ' Comic Section of The San Francisco Call S AN FRf^NGISCp.,CAL. ; SUNDAY PEB ? 20 1010. cnPYRiGHT ts/o PRESS PUBL/SH/NG CO. NEW YORK WOPLD-