The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-11-06
Tales the Taller
" Heard About Town

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4 A seedy looking lumberjack was up
before Judge Cutting one morning
this week charged with having dallied
too long over the tonsil ,varnish they
hand out on the Bowery. :~
One of Chief Troyer's braves had
picked him up in the forbidden
ground east OF Fifth avenue west.
what were you doing drunk on
the street?'' asked the Judge. !.
. WAS I drunk, judge 2" was the re-
ply in tone of surprised innocence.
''The arresting officer; says you
were.."~ r
perhaps he's right, Judge; but
was Just going along with a bird;
cage in my hand" -.
- CHIEF Troyer. setting close by.
slammed a gallon jug down before
the prisoner.
do you call that bird-cage?" he
snarled in his third degree voice.:
THAT'S what you were carrying along:
in your hand" 49, .
The prisoner picked it up carefully,
removed the stopper. took smell,
and turned 1T upside down 1T was
as dry as.%hea was.=.t'. ;. ;: -. i<:.
well, CHIEF" he answered. slowly,
1T amt bird-cage now, since you
and your men has had a whack at it. -
"Probably you are sober now and
see things differently"
THAT amt it chief; 1t was bird
cage when I had it last" J.
POSSIBLY you can explain what you
mean by a bird-cage," suggested the
puzzled court.
Easy enough, judge" smiled the
prisoner. TT had forty or fifty swal-
lows in it when they got it."
Recently one of the most fastidious
young men in Lakeside bought pair
Of overalls> and found lin them the
name of the sewing girl who had
made them.
lIe very promptly wrote her a let
ter with all the effusiveness neces-
| sary in such a case and in due time
received reply, which, however, was
! void of the romance .usualrin such a
Here it is: IT am working girl,
it is true, but make a good living
and I do not care to support hus-
| band, as I; would probably have to
| do II married some silly noodle VINO
gets mashed on a girl he never saw.
| '.Permit* me to further say that l
do not know how my: card got in that
pair of overalls, and that. when do
| marry, If ever, 1t will be some fellow
| who can afford something better than
forty-seven cent pair of breeches''
A new teacher sat into the game at
the Lester Park: school recently and
! the: first morning as she glanced
smilingly over her class she was de-
lighted to, see So many bright young
:. -..:Now y: children she said, opening
her history book, 1--WE viii run over
our history So, that I may find out
what you know. Willie Perkins, you
may tell me why Washington crossed
over the Delaware" ~.. ....
s"Ahutn-er-why now, er-ahun},"'
began Willie;: why, becuz-" ,..., :: -.
Because what, dear?" asked the
"Becuz he couldn't. 60 under it, :"
| said Willie! n*::
Dear me! Willie. what a silly ans
vert" ejaculated> the teacher: Polly
Hicks, you look like a bright little
girl. Why did the father of: his coun-
try cross. the Delaware?:'' .
I '"Plethe, mim." replied Polly, II
gueth it. wath becuth: the ,Hudthon
waah too far away for. him to croth
that" -. = go: -. =.
/ Mercy" cried the teacher, Real
ly, you will have to stay in this. after
noon and study your history. 1 Will
now test you on arithmetic: Maggie
wilkins. fl were to divide three
bananas among seventeen boys, what
would be the result?"' .',s...
"A riot" said Maggie, speaking up
like a little drum major.
"Possibly," said. the teacher, but
that is not what I mean. Tommy
you may take the question: Three
bananas among = three :boys--that
would be one banana apiece for each
boy. Now, three bananas among
seventeen boys. would be what ~"
Three bananas, n1im,' answered
Tommy: =.
II know, but three into seventeen
is!3z!'' said the teacher.
''Three bananas would go into sew
enteen boys once and none over,' said
Tommy confidently 49,: j. T., -.
I And the bright young faces did
not look so bright after that to the
new teacher. ~ ''' ~: .';> rs. :
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