--_The Continent._
HUMOROUS
"A LEEDLE MISTAKES."
"I see all how it vhas now," observed Jacob Handonder, as he came out.
"Oh, you do! You are the man who got drunk and raised a fuss on a street
car?"
"I vhas der man, and I tell you how it vhas. You see, I vhas tight. I
took too much beer."
"Can a saloon-keeper take too much beer?"
"Vhell, maype I vhas seek. I shtart to go home. Vhen der sthreet car
comes along I pelief it vhas my house. I got in und look all aroundt,
but I doan' see Katarina. I call out for der shildrens, und eferybody
laughs at me. Maype dot makes me madt, und der drifer calls a boliceman,
und I vhas galloped down here."
"So it wasn't your home?"
"Not oxactly. It vhas a leedle mistake."
"It'll cost you $5."
"Vheel, dot ain't so bad. I pay him oop und go home to preakfast."
"Be careful next time."
"Oh, I vill dot. Next time I vhas tight I go home on some shtreets
midout cars. If I take some ice-wagon for my house I pelief I got cooled
off pooty queek."
SHARPER THAN A RAZOR.
A long-waisted man, with the nose of a fox and an eye full of
speculation, walked up to a second-hand clothier, in Buffalo, the other
day, and said:
"See that overcoat hanging out down there?"
"Of course.
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