The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-08-07

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The Grab-It Habit
We used to wonder wildly how on
earth the boy acquired
The pennies and the matches ana
tho yards and yards OF string
lie carried in his pockets; ana VIC
other lads admired
The way he always had on mana
the veryp very thing
Some other fellow wanted, and was
ready for trada.
nv watching we discovered how his
great success was made
He had the
Grabit
Habit.
About the time some one OF us
would know that we would Ike
A certain sort Of something, ana
would start to make a plan
We'd find it in possession OF TINS
acquisitions tike-
He'd finished getting to it Just
about when we began!
II mystified and peeved MS, too-this
custom that he had,
And many puzzled moments we hau
wasted DER this lad
Who had the
Grab-it
Habit.
He now is rich and powerful and
runs things at his Will;
He owns herd of railroads ana
steamship line or so.
He always beats the other pigs three
snout-lengths to the swill-
He's there and busy at it when the
rest decide to 60
The practice Of his boyhood fingered
with him as he grew
He's fooled the others as he fooled
us boys before we knew
He had the
Grabit
Habit.
The Thaw Question
Nut or Not?
Obit. Verse
our only friend, who lives at VIII
mington, Del. sends us the follow
ing touching lines, which were read
by the author at the funeral OF
farmer who died from being impaled
on the prongs of a hay fork, while
riding to the barn on load OF
alfalfa:
Friends SO kind and neighbors dear
Come YOU now and shed tear
Round the awful solemn bier
Of the man who died so queer.
IN the load of hay he sat
Peaceful as the family cat.
Suddenly he slipped away
From that fatal load of hay
Down he came upon the fork
Held by faithful Benny York.
sad oh sad, 1t is to state
That he perished on this date.
Now we mourn his sad demise,
Hes gone to a land where they need
no iee.%
rake warning from his awful fate,
And repent before il is too late.
Meaning 1--WE hopc) Heaven
The Way some Advertisements
Sound 20 Us
DOG. To the first person telling
~ what the three letters, thus ar
ranged. SPELLS, we will give a grand
.,iano in clrcassian walnut case.
He Asked For Coin
He asked for coin for car-fare, so
gave it like a sooner
Although knew that he would SO
And spend 1t for schooner.-Luke
McLuke
re asked for coin for carfare, but
The thing ! did "ain't cricket
heard the plea of that poor nut
And handed him ticket.
Depends Much
A correspondent from Anna, III.
(where there is nut college. by the
way), asks if we would marry a
woman whose husband had left her.
TO which we fippantiy and wittiy
replied How much did he leave
herr"
The Canny Judge
"I live on Dry Ridge, an amt
ben t. town fer fo' months said the
jag to the Judge. An If you'll let
me go this time, | promise | won {
come back for six months"
mo, your plan is bad said the
Judge to the jag. "lf you'll promise
to return in thirty days, III let you
of. You see if yol. stayed away six
months. you'd have tw months
more Of Dry Ridge thirst 20 assuagO,
and think how it would affect you!
II You'll come back when you have
only months accumulation OF
thirst, your jag would probably be
unnotceable,"
With tears OF gratitude in his red
eyes the jag departed.
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