The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-07-26
LAUGHED AT HIS OWN JOKES.

duDDESDOk, ESSLAND.
 LAUGHED AT HIS OWN JOKES. Ralph l. Burdick, in New York Mercury.l
 Running is 90 easy, by people of ordin- ary wit, that what most people do in that line is not worth remembering over night yet it enters into the greater portion of English wit-so much so, that when somebody told Sam Rogers that pun ming was the lowest order of wit, he said ]: Yes, it is the foundation of it."
 It is essuredly the groundwork of all the stock in that kind of trade, which thousands possess who pass for wits, or at least are ambitious of so passing so ambitious that they are constantly tor ment:ng their weak inventions for some pulling pun, until habit no, only makes them very eomplacent companions, but very sickening bores.
 Mir. Jack Daw was a man something of that sort: no more absurd than many we have heard pun, tickling their weak brains with frivolity devoid of humor and stu- pidly absurd substitution of sound sense. Yet many of those persons will not sec any similarity between Mir. Jack Daw and themselves, and if they smiic in derisioh at him, will not know that they are ridi- culiug themselves.
 Mir. Amos Hugpippin was wiser and a poorer man than Mir. Jack Daw. In fact, when Hugpippin first came to Hay town, place famous for cattle shows, he hadn't a dollar nor a COW to his name, and at least a hundred head of valuable cattle, male and female, which he prided himself upon exceedingly-not SO much, however, as upon the wit he imagined himself t. have.
 But MT. Hugpippin, poor and plausible. did not come to Haytown with the inten- ton of remaining poor. He set about making himself better off: and falling into the society ofMr Daw, he found tha, parsonage was in the habit of laughing very heartily-Ha, ha.-and poked him, Mir. Hugpippin, very disagreeably in the ribs, without the slightest cause. for all that Mir. Hugpippin could see.
 Therefore he puzrled Hugpippin much, and that person then noticed that shortly after MT. Jack Da~, having made somv observation with the inevitable ha, ha would suddenly look gloomy and vexed, SvCAkoo<Ay hSWSsSAy AS>aAatss& $ " nsS 6VVo humor and then to some cheerful remark with the inveterate ha, ha! and the as in- eutable poke.
 IA Hugpippin could see no cause for this strange conduct, he finally concluded that Mfr. Jack Daw must be crazy-crny with his good fortune-and he related what he had seen, heard and !el:, and anxiously inquired about him.
 He is crazy win riekes,' said Hug pippin. No man can be sane who IS addicted to such freaks. such changes of mood, suddenly and without apparent cause at the time being. He was once poor, and attribute his oddities 10 the reverse of his fortunes. am plaeuey poor myself, and don't know but what 1 might be crazy, too, if should become possessed of upvard of fifty thousand dol lars-God help me .r
 But are you sure,7 asked the others, "thas he didn't have anything to laugh at?'
 Not in his remarks nor in mine, am sure, for felt anything but jocular. He might have been laughing al the holes in my elbows but he was once rooT him. self and must have had plenty of holes. S0 l1ly OA&A L03& NO<6Nk nav g~%&t " very new to him
 But, Hugpippin,n szid one, shrewder than the rest, depend upon it, the man thought he was saying something very funny, and so laughed aa 1t hsmself and poled you in the ribs 10 maie you laugh too. All poor jokeEs do that. Take my advice and vhen yoa % so SC him again laugh evesy tiaak he iausAs and say cap ital . and poke him in the ribs in return. Rely upon is he win he highly pleAsed and have none of the oeher turns of look ing vexed When he seemed meiancholy asd scsed ssssily it vas becanse he thought he vas wifsy bU soe app.sciased: Humor him and iangh at sll his jobes (if he. is capable of any) and h. vill think yee . vestAy fsAow and nay be great help to you A fool and his money are soca parted"
 <AAai sec believe you're night v said Hugpippin- sIn 60 to him and