The Delta independent., 1911-01-20
EARN GABLES.

An u eChy youIH lTOH al EdSteTu
city who wa.I.'i much used to the
ways of the country, undertook to
amusc himself ty tickling the heels
of Missouri mule with a straw
At the inquest next day the man who
owned the mule was heard to re-
mark: "It is evident the good Lord
didn't make anything in vain. If
there weren't some fools the coroner
of this county wouldn't make enough
out of the Office to pay his election
epenses."
Moral.-It is a good idea to get
all the information you can before
you tackle a subject you are not
familiar with.
A Nebraska hen who had attend
ed strictly to business, laying an egg
at least every other day, was re-
warded by the farmers wife with
extra feed and thereupon she be-
gan to get fat and gay and neglect
ed her reguler business entirely,
saying in an alecky manner, when
asked why she didn't lay any more
eggs, that she didn't have to, and
the farmers wife, seeing the hen
was just loafing around, doing no
good, said: LAS you are no good
for anything else l will feed you to
the gang of Methodist preachers who
are coming here tomorrow
Moro1 ora ham of pao
pie who can't stand prosperity.
A Colorado jackrabbit, wishing to
impress a few moral precepts upon
the minds of his offspring, was one
day discoursing to the youth on
the wrong of quarrelling. Now my
son." said the elder rabbit, "just
look at yonder two bulldogs who are
scrapping to beat the band. YOU
see how they are hewing and
tearing each other. When they get
through with the fight neither one
of them will be fit to appear in So
ciety for more than a week, and
they will carry the scars to their
graves. Look at me my son. Did
you ever see me fighting and quar-
reling and coming home with my
head all bunged up and my face
scratched on account of having been
in a racket
And did it ever occur to you.
my dear paternal ancestor" said
the wise young rabbit as it scratch
ed it's volumnous ear with its rear
foot, that the reason you never
get into a fight is because you are
nothing but blamed rabbit
Moral-Many a man gets a repu-
tation for being a peaceable citizen
because he is too much of coward
to be anything else.
A large, fat drake fell deeply in
love with beautiful speckled Neb-
raska hen and proposed matrimony.
At first the hen was considerably
struck with the appearance of the
drake and inclined to tie up with
him, but when they began to talk
over the question of future resi-
dence, the little hen enthusias-
tically pointed out a garden patch
where they could have a beautiful
time scratching in the dirt and wal
lowing in the dust; but the pro-
posed arrangement did not strike
the drake at all. "No my love-, he
demonstrated, II know of a daisy
location down by the big pond
where we can swim all day and chase
bugs along the shore" Then the hen
turned Upon the drake with look of
scorn and remarked, do you take
me for 'rog or a fiy-up-the-creek
or do you think l am going out to
drown IN that hateful old pond? If
am personally acquainted with my
self. and I think I. am. will do
nothing of the sort And right then
and there, loves young dream was
broken.
Moral.-It is a bad idea to get
hitched up with an Individual whose
tastes and desires are entirely for
eign to your own.