The log cabin Democrat., 1910-01-24
HIS WIFE
LAUGHED

| cradle
NO. sir, I'm a downy bird, I an
| and take it from me, this home sweet
| nome gig isn't going to cash any pol
| Icy slip ever saw Not until they
do something to give women sense
| Of humor.
"Now, get this right They can ap-
| preciate joke. You hear me Some
of the best laughere in the wide,
| wide world right row are wearing
| high-heeled shoes and imported hair.
Yes, stree, they can appreciate
| joke If they can see it they can.
That's it. There you have 1t, son. Ii
they can see it, chats the trouble
They seldom see it.
Listen here Did you see her laugh
as she went out? Eth? Well, sir,
| just told her a joke, regular kind of a
funny joke. Is she laughing at ~
joke, son? SL5 is not. Then what
/ the blazes is she laughing at? You
don't know. l don't know, she don't
know Can you beat it? Answer:
No. you cannot beat it.
It's a good joke too. Heard il
downtown. Seems one c. the boys
was up in Maine this summer and jp-
as he was getting over to RAJ tlesnake
creek he heard a terrible swimming
going on there. He went down to the
shore and there on the other side of
Rattlesnake creek WAS Il big turtle
crawling away.
He says the turtle had two rings
on his tail and one button on the end.
and his shell was notified yellow and
red He says the two rings probably
were for the turtle to go ahead, be
cause that's What the turtle was do
ing. And when he saw the button on
the end of the tail he knew he'd seen
The turtles finish.
That's some story. Eth? But listen
nsre. | got to tnia'Iiug about that
story ard l up and asks Aim how he
makes it out that a turtle could have
rings and a button on his tail Rat
tlesnakes are the only critters that
have them. He said that was easy,
because when he first saw the turtle
on the other side of RattlesnaAe creek
he knew in an instant it was cross
DO you get chat? ! guess thet's
bad BY gum, it cost me a dollar six
ty to find out about that cross, but II
was worth it. | took a cigar myself,
because I was coming right home and
didn't want any argument. Here
smoke that when you get outside
Wife objects to the smell around the
house.
We'll, sir, I says, says 7. Home for
mine, where in the sacred precincts
Of my own vine and fig tree | says
I'll hand that one over the plate to
my soft-voiced Spouse says l and ii
will tie her up says, into shak-
ing and complicated tansle of blithe
some merriment, says |. Likewise,
such being the case. / freely opined
that my paths would be in sunny
places and sweet peace would brood
over me, to the third and fourth gen
Grafton thereof. Selah,
80 | came home, and. take it from
NE, gave it out to her in plain
words. No hidden subtleties, you I'M
derstand but full of corroborative de-
tail and, believe me, son, with the
bright light of truth and virtue flash
ing from my clear blue eyes.
You never heard me when I was
right in top form, maybe? Well, son,
the way l told her that story was
right. See what l mean? The turtle
wouldn't have had any comeback If
ne had heard it himself.
And did she laugh? Did she give
that imitation of complicated and
vangled merriment? Not sort
Nothing of the kind. Nix. She looked
me square in the face and she said:
Well, what about ito says she. &c
ahead and tell the joke, says she.
Say, that got me mad. I wouldn"
aaYe minded if she had been kidding
me. but she wasn't | was sore a.|
over and / unhitched my righteous in
dignation and began to hand things
| ont all in a bunch. | combad things
over pretty general one way and az
other until, I'll give you my word, !:
couldn't think of anything more to
say that dared to, women beins III,
Necessarily touchy at times.
"'You're the limit says, as a
kind of wiMup I don't believe you
ever saw coke in your life says
and you wouldn't laugh if you did, !
says.
Henry she says just as serious
y don't know bat one real funny JOKE
ana I've known that a long time.
, be says, and every once in awhile !
ifugh myself sick over ~ she says
qt's an awfully funny Joke she says
and one is enough for any woman
she says. that's respectable. she says
"'Wen for the love Of mackerel
nut ne wise says l. no, Henry
she says. you wouldn't like it at all
MD besides she says, ] don't wan
70 h ,rt your feelings she says. Anc
rhen. take it from me, she laid her
head back and laughed IKE she'd hav q