The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-08-25

and make yourself agreeable, so that all can enjoy your company. Here, sit on this sofa, between Mrs. Kidd and Miss De Rose. We've been pining for you all the evening"
 MT. Funnyman (seating himself) )- "Ahl kid to make merry with, and 8 rose for a companion to the thorn" | Mrs. Kidd and Miss De Rose Cblush- ing)-"Te, he-hep (Every one de- lighted and convulsed.)
 Short-haired Little Girl" "My What old ones!" (Mr. Funnyman looks blank and the female guests in- dignant, while the men try to suppress a grin of mirthful approval.)
 Here he strikes grotesquely funny attitude and humorously exclaims "Name this and you may take it."
 Next Guest-"O, he is all fun. That witticism on Washer was the finest thing ever heard"
 MT. Funnyman-"I never was SO delayed in getting to place as coming here tonight. As got to the Palmer house, the general stopped me, and inquired particularly about Dean, and Wash, and"
 Unsophisticated Youth "General who? And which Dean and Wash who?"
 Mir. Funnyman (with a twinkle in his eyes)-"O, General Debility, and Sardine and Hairwash, and" (inter- rupted by general signs of hilarity and immense enjoyment by all.)
 Short haired Girl-"Old Nero fed deluded believers to lions for getting off those old chestnuts." (No one seems to pay any attention to this, except the guests look daggers and MT. Fun nyman is cast down for a moment. Then he rallies.)
 Mir. Funnyman-"I had 8 queer ex- perience yesterday. I wanted to go to Milwaukee, and got to the North western depot just as train was mov- ing. I nearly broke my neck getting on the train-only to find that she was just coming in, and that my train would not leave for two hours"
 Short haired Girl Gin a stage whis- per)-"That's so old Pm sure Colum- bus must have brought it over. It's gray, any way"
 MT. Funnyman (thinking to take the girl s'down," while some guests look for her mother)-"Well, sissy, you look bad. Have you the tooth ache7 I see you have your mouth open" (Giggles from the lady guests. )
 Short-haired Girl - "Those hard gags gave me pain in the head, and opened my mouth 10 see if I could catch 8 few of the roasted chestnuts you are fiinging around this evening" :" (Signs of hilarity from MT. Washer, quickly suppressed by angry looks from the ladies.)
 MT. Funnyman Changing the sub- ject with celerity)-"Coming through Lincoln Park the other day, I saw 8 tailor making pair of dogs pants out of a thunder bolt, and sewing it with the thread of discourse, and I heard tree bark and saw the first rung of the ladder of fame, and as T." Qmmense hurst of laughter and ad- miring looks from the ladies who had all gathered around him.)
 Short haired Girl (unable to bear it any longer, jumping up and handing him blue and yellow and red cov- cred book)-"Here, you haven't learned lem all yet. If you'd only read lem out of the book you could get lem off better. You left out the ones about eating with the fork of road, and hearin' the welkin ring, and riding 8 saw horse, saving moonbeam bias, and all those things. o, you ought to go to McVicker's and hear George Wilson get lem of. Here, you take the book. Everybody knows lem but you and those folks."
 MT. Funnyman is utterly crushed, and Mrs. De Pork, who came up just in time to hear the last part of the crushing, instantly removes the short haired girl.
 l And yet, I am pained to say, that at the next social Mir. Funnyman had another admiring circle of echoes, who did not seem to know the difference between wit and humor spontaneously bursting forth, and the rusty, shallow sayings of the saw dust ring and vari- ety pits, and our "funnymen. viii go right on basking in the pale, sickly 1 light of imbecile admiration as long as society requires no higher display of intellectual force than to know how to tic 6 cravat, or to handle fork, or to repeat some ancient and threadbare ljoke with mouthing idiocy and drawl- ing affectedness. Only the Force of Habit. | Puck.