The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-12-21
NO. 81


only four dollars. Now phat will yez
dog' The owner sent team around
and moved him.
Now. tell me candidly. are you
guilly?" asked lawyer of his client.
"Why, do you suppose Id be fool
enough to hire you if was innocentP"
The difference between single col
ored mans moan for his sweetheart and
a awestern storm is, that one is dark,
lone sigh, and the other dark cyclone.
The word call" has a different Signi-
ticance in poker from what it has in
society. In poker if your opponent
"calls" excuses don't go. You must
show up.
ats queer, very," said Schempe,
slightly befogged, "when l want to go
inside the beer house there, if it isn't
full, and when | want to come out
agaln-the I'm full"
An Illinois wood-cutter recently
found horseshoe in the heart of an
oak. This is much better than if the
liar had suddenly found a mule shoe in
the calf of his back.
why, sir, did you let that dog bite
mep" said high state official to ne
gro. "What did yose'f let him bite yo
fur, bossp Yerse'f S got mo intrus in
de matter den is"
A traveller says the air on the noun
tains OF California "is dry to the point
of discomfort and inconvenience" If it
stays that dry very long, 1t is the only
thing in California that does.
An exchange gives lot of advice
"How to catch Il husband" The SIM
pliest way to catch him would be to
leave him alone with a goOd-looking
maid servant and then come upon him
unawarves.
They were walking by the seaside,
and he sighed and she sighed; and she
was by his side, anu he by her side, and
they were both beside themselves,
beside being at he seaside, where she
sighed and he sighed.
An exchange heads an article of a
column length How to get eggs" The
Judge can offer better receipt. Ifyou
have money go to the grocery store and
shell out. If you haven't 60 there and
light out-in neither case ont forgetting
the eggs.
A temperance man Grating at SOL
dier's banquet out west, had occasion
to repeat the couplet, "Their bones are
moulding In thedust. Their spirits are
in heaven, we trust" but intstead Of
the word spirits" hi used "strimu-
lants," as being less offensive to some
good church members whom he saw
present.
And now the people who visited
their country relatives all summer,
slept in the best beds and ate all the
fruit, are back in town, laying plans for
a lockout on Uncle Eben and Aunt
Hester if they should happen to come
TO the city during the winter.
II don't understand why women
dress that way" said man pointing to
a lady who passed along the street. II
don't either" replied a bystander.
THAT woman" continued the first
speaker, "is dressed ridlculously. Her
husband must be a fool" 81 know he
is said the bystander. "Do you know
him p "Oh, yes. I'm the blamed fool
myself"
"Now tell me truly. Professor Sharp,
what do you think Of my voice?" ask.
ed Miss Macscreecher, after giving the
professor specimen of her vocaliza-
tion. "Oh, my dear Miss Macscreecher,"
replied the polite professor, II couldn't
be so rude as that" In her con(iden-
tial moments Miss Mascreecher says
she doesn't think much of Prof. Sharp's
abilities as musician.
An humble boy with shining pail
went gladly singing adown the vale, to
where the cow with the brindle tail on
clover her palate did regale. A busy
bee did gaily sail far over the soft and
shadowy dale, to where the boy with
the shining pail was milking the cow
with the brindle tail. The bee lit down
on the cows left ear; her heels flew up
through the atmospheTe-and through
the leaves of chestnut tree the boy
scared into eternity.
It wasn'ttha Bennie had the meas
els that made her cry with rage and
vexation, the fond mother remarked so
much as the notifying thought that
he caught them Of those hideous little
brats, the soap mans children. All her
other children, she said, had contracted
all these things in highly respectable
, neighborhoods and among the best
r children in society. but Bennie always
WIS so queer, she knew he was going to
? be nihilist, or something. And she
sobbed Till all the complexion on heE
check wars fairly ruined,