The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-18
TAMPERING WITH TRIPLES.
WHEN NAV is SICK.

WHEN NAV is SICK.
When NAV Is sick things amt tn same;
baw never laughs ner Jokes,
He acts Jest like he was ter blame,
An smokes, an smokes, an smokes,
An erouches round tn house all day,
An never makes a kick;
Cept when we're roisy at yur play,
An maw Is good an sick.
Iaw looks az Us kids dest as queer,
An sometimes wipes mas eyes,
Like 'sif he cof.dn't see quite clear,
An then he sorter flies
Inter grouchy grumblin' tit,
An eyry words a yeill
An paw amt paw single bit
When nav amt feelln' we'll!
He gives US nlckels, though. an says:
go on, run out an playl"
Paw has such queer unpaw-like ways,
An grouches SO all day
When NAV amt we'll us kids stay out,
An life Amt half 50 slick!
An we can't tell what paw about
When NAV is good an sick!
Every man plays the fool once in a
while and some woman may perhaps nae
him play 1t twice In a while; but there IS
no excuse for making it continuous
performance.
An exchange says that the widow OF an
Arab, when she intends TO remarry nat
urally thinks that the late lamented
might not approve, so the night before
the wedding she goes to pay him visit
at his grave, accompanied by an ass bear
ing two goat skins of water, with which
she saturates her defunct lords last rest
ing place. The account fails to state
whether the ass that accompanies her Is
or Is not the one she is to marry.
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4 young maiden was fixing To wed
a Northern young man, all elate,
And she said, then said she.
1t some how seems to me
shall have to some day learn to skate
Alas that loves votaries wake!
She did not learn to skate,
But she sat UP quite late.
And learned to cook, scrub, wash and
bake.
d. w. 3, asks: "It, when attending a
swell function, the full dreus sui, you
have obtained from the ccstumers does
not fit, is it proper to roll up the bottors
of the trousers and the cuffs of your
coat?"
We are always happy to give informa-
ton rn these points Dub. You shoyld
turn the cuffs Of your coat inwardly and
fasten them with large brass safety plns.
The bottoms OF the trousers may be
turned up the 6rst few times, but II you
stay in society long you will soon Gud
your legs sufficiently elongated to fit
any old dress suit
Pugilist Csrbett has gone into vause-
Vile, his specially being a twenty minute
monologue. He was always a first class
man with his mouth,
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The news comes that Duke Hen has
run away from Queen Wilhelm ma be-
cause he will have every member of tho
Dutch parliament for father n-law.
He should not have taken to his haels
until they sprung a mother-in7law On
him.
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No work OF art now brings the Joy
That filled my h1som when a boy
! sat and watched with grin i'm nense
Some brave. brave, boy whltewash a
fence.
The years like tides may ebb ami Gov,
But there's no joy like that below;
The reason it brought Joy t, me
Was cause l didn't DO it. See?
The probating OF the will Of a Conn ecti.
cut woman disc,oess the fact that che has
left her whole G,rtune to couple of
yellow dogs, she DOUBTLESS figured that
IL she left it to her relatives they'd go
to the bcw-wows with 1t any how.
a girl % years OF age has been arrested
in a Northern city for stealing a Decent
finger ring. Certainly that is Just plain
stealing and no jury on earth would call
1t kleptomania.
A. New6urg, Ind, woman has been
married nine times. One OF her hus-
bands married her twice and twice d.
vorced her. When he saw himself drift
Ing toward her for the third tine he
committed suicide He found no living
with her or without her.
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That winter mildness hath charm
That only in the South is found,
Is true; bmt Il hath drawbncks too,
Mosquitoes live the whole year r-und
J.M.L
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