The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-09-01
BUBBLES.

An old-fashioned watering place-A
pump.
Better have loved short girl than
never loved a tall
If the keeper of a Jail is a iailer, why
isn't the keeper of a prison a prisoner?
We know a shrewd farmer who made
Il fortune cultivatlng weeds. They were 4
widows.
"A child thus defines gossip: Its when
nobody don't do nothing, and somebody
goes and tells of it,
Little things should not be despised.
The little toe is the smallest on the foot,
but it always has the largest corn.
An old negro cook says, " sass is pow
erful good in everything but children. Dey
needs some oder kind of dressin.''
cob, there's bee in his bonnet"
said growler. WE'LL you wouldn't have
him spell bonnet without b, would you ?"
"A mule struck on Saturday ON the
Erie towpath. They have found cap
and one suspender button that belonged to
the driver.
There is a man somewhere whose
memory is SO short that it only reaches to
boots.
In the picture gallery-Young girl
Say, mamma, when shall we come to
another of these pictures where l must
shut my eyes?
The excuse of the boy who scuds along
by the edge of the yawning grave with his
stomach full of green apples, is that he
didn't know it was loaded
-" Boots BACKED inside ?" read stran-
ger, as he gazed on playcard in a window.
You don't catch me iettin' that chap
black my boots'' and he passed on.
-1mpassioned lover quoting Moore in a
whisper: "Our couch shall be roses, be-
spangled with dew" Practical shop girl:
"lt would give me rheumatics, and so it
would you
What lot of oaks there are in the
world. We have heard of tall oaks that
grew up from little acorns) Oaks Ames,
white oaks, black oaks, hickory oaks, Fair
Oaks, scrub oaks, and bad jokes lin other
newspapers.)
"A young mother in this city explained
christening to her five year old boy by tell
ing him that when he was christened he
"would be one of Gods little lambs. ~
"And will l have hind legs and baa ?'
eagerly asked the boy.
1t has been inferred that Dryden wasn't
opposed to a sherry cobbler, from a remark
he once made" Straws may be made the
instruments of happiness" But perhaps he
used them to tickle his wife's nose with
when she was asleep and thus realize the
ecstacy of bliss.
-" Adolphus dear, what shall l do ?
Bridget has struck, and there she stands
at the kitchen door with a poker in one
hand and the saucepan in the other, threat
ening to brake the head of the new help
if she dares to lay her hand to dish rag
Its just awful, so it is, too.'
Two country attorneys overtaking a
wagner on the road, thinking TO break a
joke with him, asked him why his fore
horse was 50 fat, and the rest SO lean. The
wagner, knowing them to be limbs of the
law, replied, "That the fore horse was Il
lawyer, and the rest were his clients"
Street scene: He" Did you ever see,
Mary, giraffe scratch its ear with its hind
leg?" She" No, George, | never did
| He" Did you ever give your dress kick
with your foot, catch it with your hand,
and then hold it from the dust >" She
| " eS, dear, | have He" Well, then
-" She-"Oh you horrid creature ~
He waltzed out of the front door, fol
| lowed by dashboard and two bars of soap;
and, as he Strengthened himself, and walked
, firmly down the street, he remarked: ga
man must draw the line somewhere, or he
can't be boss of the house; and I'll be
hanged if I'll pump more than one tub of
water for any washing, and there amt a
woman can make me do it, unless she
| locks me in