Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-12-28
REALISTIC aumoR.
What Mr.. Dodd Regarded as Very Funny
San Francisco Post.

What Mr.. Dodd Regarded as Very Funny.
San Francisco Post.
81 have come, my young friend" said a
genial looking individual, walking into
the sanctum Of the writer the other day,
II have come, Mr.. Dodd, to give You q
pointer"
''Prefer settlers" we replied, and then,
noticing that the visitors face was
warmed by nose Of generous tinge," or.
do you mean an item about beer?"
No" said he, smiling afrably, "but on
something of more Importance to the
great public veal than good whisky even.
I desire to give you few kindly hints on
humor that you will find to your advan-
tage in-your specially"
"Indeed 2" murmured. "There'e anotll-
er."
"Now, no doubt you have readers who
pretend to enjoy your department, but
they don't really. And the reason is
that your style OF fun is too abstract for
the general mind-too impersonal-too
too aesthetic, SO to speak,
"Think SOP"
'No doubt of it. People don't care
nowadays Tor the quiet, suggestive style
in hlmor. What they need is plenty of
action, force, and life. Now,do yon know,
1 detected something very like conun-
drum in the postscripts last week?"
"lt's an infamous campaign slander"
said we, tlaring up.
Easy, my dear sir, easy" said our
visitor, taking chair and striking a
match. 81 didn't say you actually wrote
one Heaven forbid [ should suppose
you capable OF such degradation. I said
something like one. 1t merely shows
what you are coming to in time if you
don't forsaiSe your present style at once.
What you should strive after, my dear
sir, is broad comic effect, mixed with
immediate human interest and action.''
GAS how?"
"Well-lemme see-there was little
thing occurred the other day that YOU
might work splendldly. Bill Crandall
and l were going up to elena on the
train, duck shooting, last week, and a
lady got in with a baby in her arms
The baby went to sleep and was laid on
the opposite seat. Pretty soon the lady
dozed Off also, and Bill, who is a good
deal Of a wag, took the baby back, had a
trunk check tied to its foot, and put it in
the baggage car. Then Bill came baci;
and slipped the check number into the
mothers purse. The row that woman
kicked up when she woke was the most
amusing thing ever saw
"Must 'er been
"And the cream of the joke WIS thai
Bill actually tried to make the woma,
think she had checked the child in he
slcep--llalf believed il. too, when sh,
found the check III her purse. She wa
as mad as wildcat, though, when sh
got the baby back at the next station
and found that the baggage smashcr
had put Il large-sizcd Saratoga on it
stomach-almost mashed as fiat as
! pancake. The passengers Just roare
when they saw it,
"Jolly dogs, weren't tEey:"
"Of coarse. The more she siiorted IL,
louder they laughed You see wome
have no idea OF lumor-none in til
world. Why. when we got to to he
town she actually had her husband, c
somebody, call Bill out on the rlatforl
and knock him down two or three time
while we waited. However. that mad
1t all the funnier. Don't you think so? ?
"By all means"
realistic humor, after few moment
| AuNdlO SAuSh1ALie,, GuCle > little lulH
that happened up at our boartling-hous
last month, that illustrates my idle
exactly. You see, one Of the boarde
named Gnti'ey caught Il congestive chi
and died. Right under his was the roo
of young DR.. Potts. Now, Potts natu
ally expected to have the trade of IL
house, and SO when Mrs. Guif'ey sent o,
!: and got another physician to kill ht
husband, Potts was SO all-tired put ou
that he determined to get even. So /
bored hole through his ceiling and I'll
Guifeys floor, and finally. when he heal
: G.'s death rattle.he rushed up stairs. an,
Mrs. Ci. being down at the matinee |
: passed the wire of battery IRON h
3 room up through the mattress an
: screwed the end of it into the Iecease
} Gutl'ey's spine-right at the nerve centr
. think he said
$ "GalvaniZed him, eh?
Exactly. AS soon as Potts heard Mr.
s Gutfey came in, he turned on the ba
e terry and the remains began to work i
] toes and shake little. SO the wife ,
! the cadaver simply said: 'Hav'in' moth,
). chill, Gustus?' and went off to tell Il
S other lady boarders about the fashions
"Well?"
!, "Well--yon don't seem to grapple wi
e the humor Of the idea, somehow. Eve
S day or two the attending physici;
r would come in and watch the defun
: twist and spnirm, and would feel of |
:. pulse and then tell them to keep hi
G perfectly quiet and put hot bottles
$ the PATIENTS feet. OF course after
G week or two, the corpse began to get {
s. fensive. and, finally, Potts had Mrs. G'
fiery arrested for maintaining nuisan
Y He examined the body himself, and t.
:. tilted that the deceased had been de
! over u month. just ruined the ri,
;. doctor entirely. Quaint idea: now, was
:, it?"
! And after exacting from the writer
" promise to look into the more rob,
4 ! style Of American humor at an early d.
- the obliging stranger wrung our ha
,n n and walked off, chuckling to himself |
g til out of hearing.
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