The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-12-15

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"Not even for summer vacation7'
"Not day; too busy. Iwrite under con
tract"
"Well, welll What are yoa writingr
"Indian stories "-Omaha World.
GENTLY Rocking.
| On the porch maid Is sitting,
Gently rocking;
And watch the rhythmic fitting
OF her stocking.
On the porch together sitting,
1nterlocldng;
Sweetest foolishness committing,
Gently rocking
Ina year the lady's knitting
Me a stocking,
And I'm by . cradle sitting,
Gently rocking.
New York World.
Not So Very Bad.
Featherly Ito Dumley, who has been to the
races)-You look as though you had had bad
luck, Dumley
Dumley (bitterly)-Bad luck7 borrowed
$40 from Brown to put up on the election,
and I'm Mugwump if I didn't lose every
cent of it.
Featherly (soothingly)- well, old man,
it isn't as if the money came out of your own
pocket you know.-Tid Bits.
Their Luck.
A maid went out one summer morn.
She searched the fields all over;
When to her home she did return,
She brought q four-leaf clover.
Her sister who remained at home,
To bake conceived a notion,
And made some biscuits light as foam
That floats upon the ocean.
She's welded been who made the bread
For half year and over,
But not sutton has the maid
Who found the four-leaf clover
Boston Courier.
An Ultimatum.
Father trying to read the paper)-What
was that awful racket in the hall lust now?
Mother-One of the children fell down the
stairs.
Father Grascibly)-Well, you tell those
children that if they cannot fall down stairs
quietly they won't be allowed to fall down
them at all-New York Sun.
Only a Little Word.
1t was only word
That the silence stirred,
But an import sad had it
A knell of despair
To loving pair
Twas her fathers one word, "Gitw
Boston Budget.
Angels without Wings Preferred.
They were doing little love making be-
tween acts.
Just as the curtain went up he called her
his. angel.
couldn't you get your angel to wear her
cago Times.
Mustn't Fool with Dynamite.
Some dynamite lay
In a keg one day,
Which man kicked accidentally;
Now he whangs the Tyre
OF celestial choir
In the realms Of the sweet subsequently.
-Ogdensburg Earth.
Untrue Because Unnecessary.
The force Of habit Is always strong. A
Baltimore young man who was calling on
street car conductors daughter says that the
father wandered in at rather late hour and
opening the parlor door, mechanically sx-
claimed, "Sit close, please" = Baltimore
American.
The News Editor.
Producing many a brilliant gem,
A credit to his taste -
Tis hard to think of each Of them.
The settings only paste.
Chicago Tribune.
Adding Insult to Injury.
Mr.. Oldboy "a bachelor)-It's all over,
Gussy, my boy. Miss Smith has refused me-
Gussy-1 suppose she let you down easy by
to be sister to you!
Mr.. Oldboy Qbitterly)-No, b'thunder; she
said she would be daughter to me!-Texas
Sftings.
Too Much of Good Thing, Etc.
They're tired of turkey, goose and pie;
They're sick Of celery greens,
And once again they sadly sigh
For hash and pork and BEANS
Hotel Mall
I'm the 1fadding Crowd.
B. R. H. ito prince)-You are very late,
Albert. You must have made quite cali
IN Mr.. Sullivan.
Prince (wearily)-No, saw him only a
ew moments It-was standing on the line
hat detained me.-New York Sun.
Kerosene Kate.
He scraped away the messy spray :!
And scratched amid the lichen green, ~
Until he read: kate Kelly, dead,
Aged twenty Kerosene"
Texas siftings-
Her Greatest Domestic Act.
Timid Young Suitor (who has won consent
4 papa)-And now may ask you, sir,
Observation-Disclosures your daughter has any
domestic accomplishments!
Papa 0arcastically)- sir; she some
lines knits her brows.-Detroit Free Press.
Why She Feared It.
Husband-A general war in Europe this
oming year would be dreadful thing.
Wife (who contemplates trip abroad
Yes, indeed. It would so interfere with our
lans for the s1mmer.-The Epoch.
How He Got EN-.
How came you by that broken nose pray,
How came upon your face that cruel scarf
called nn0n an editor one 0nv