Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-07-25

sPicau thc JULIET tuiCA VI ulo COIu
p0ne.
There Is no such word as fail in
my vocabulary replied Bee Now,
lkey, be quiet, the scheme is secret"
After supper the trio went out on the
street, and, calling Pat, Bee went
around to the BARRIERS, while the re-
porter and Ikey smoked a stogie on
the corner.
About an hour later, while the bald
headed reporter was writing in the
throes Of agonized effort to be funny,
Bee strolled into the sanctum, shorn
Of his GROWING beauty, and followed
by Pat, whose face had been shaved,
whose feet looked like drum sticks and
whose tail resembled this story, 1t was
SO different.
1T was wlg." IN. B.-This is an
English joke, diagrams will be fur
nished on application at the box Office.
-Editor.)
1T is did," calculated Bee, and he
doffed his sombrero to prove his asser-
ton. while Pat went of in corner
and hid behind a naner basket con-
tanning rejected noems m snring fever
and malaria.
"There he goes +" said tbs renorter
regardless Of his grammar and he
wrote these words.
"A story to he funny should he finn
nv and contain viii"
ooh como offi" cold Roo "tbo+,s M
way to begin story particularly a
humorous one"
"But I thought you said the mixtures
were tn make tho noonle laughi" 70.
plied the reporter and amateur author
80 they will" said Bee "but. for
heavens sake. how am | going to draw
a picture to fl that kind Of rot?"
"Umph thought that sentence
was full Of rich. Juicy laugh. that the
kind they spring on Won in Punch and
Ally Sloper" replied the reporter.
"Now, old man. be serious lust a
minute. First Won get A title for the
story, like this. for instance Who
went to church on what the parson
said" Now there is a theme full of
humorous possibilities A man who
goes to church as often as Won do
ought to have some good ideas "
"That's sol Rec old socks Sum-
pose I write a story ON How Jonah
cooked HIS meal IN the submarine
boat?n
"That's inst the thing old man. Get
I'm story nm that and IN furnish Won
sketches that will make vour hair
grow"
"Tis done," renlied the scribe and
at midnight bo bad accommodated Tho
following. 'When Jonah decided to
take a s,ibmarine trim he consulted
Holland about tho cirar shaned hoat
but the inventor Was Gill studying Tho
Intricac,oo ~ orronr,ra ano Lool for
Dunraven's new cun defender So
Jonah sent a MESSENGER hov to Mem
tune with a talegram and bis rova,
oyono forwardod nv roturn mail
whale with two unnor and lower herth
and a Pullman dining car attached to
the vestibule puving scalner,s
ticket Jonah wont aboard tho oar
"As the train nulled out NJ Jersav
City Jonah bought some neanuts from
the news butcher and won't into The
dining oar NJ Tho wbalo 70 food Tho Ola
miami There was a tornado blowing
AZ The time and as tho train ran off
tho track Tho wbalo came IN tho AIR.
faco and sno,,ted ono ~ william Ion
ninpa Rrvan,a sneecbes from the roar
niotsorm ord ~ onnto,n d,,rrod ~
anchor 0
"It wos sovor ord = ho,, halls v,hon
Tho conductor coma around n nunch
tho t,crots ord tho tro,n was ~
down vrado moor tbo nol,,sodos ~
Ninevab
"'Ticketsp ve,,ed tho conductor hut
Jonah feivned sieen. ho wasn't on,to
sure h,a scalnor,s ,ictot would mt hin
through ' ~ p' '
"'Tickets,, re,torotod tho frot m,+o
wbo had followed the conduotor fro,n
tho baggage nor and Tho nsir sbo,r
FIVE aces out of Jonah's sleeve.
picking nm the pasteboards the
conductor calculated These won't do
produce the green ticket a ward long