The Washington herald., 1918-06-04
Wilbur Ought To Have Known.

Wilbur Ought To Have Known.
1T was too hot to shoot craps last
Sunday. ledge, so All takes mahseff
to church. en- sits mahseff by a nice
cool winder."
What has that got to do with your
insulting this woman on the street?"
the court asked Wilbur Jenkins.
We'll, All will tell you Jedge. yon-
ner. You see. dis woman she seed me
FUN de vinder. She winked her eye
at me. meaning 70 me to cum out. I"
All Gums out. Wen she sees me. she
turns her haid de odder way"
What Wilbur was trying to tell the
court was that he struck up an ac-
quaintance with a chicken from the
church window. When he went out
side to get acquainted. the chickens
husband came up.
She refused to talk to him and asked
her husband to drive OF the annoyer.
The husband was much too small a
man to tackle Wilbur. so he called
the police. That Is how Wilbur came
into court. so he says.
OF course. il the lady did such
thing as that. she couldn't be blamed,
because no lady wants her husbond to
catch her flirting.
Wilbur swore positively that his story
was true. Would he be fool enough
to walk up to a lady with her husband
standing near and start a Irritation?
he asked.
Even though 1t looked like a case
OF six of one and a half dozen of the
other. the court told Wilbur to shell
out s..
Delirium Tremens.
lima nfna ia
Especially when It is influenced by
strong stun.
Sunday night. after all of Annie
Owens family had gone to bed. she
came running downstairs, scared to
death.
"Heil-up murder. police" she
screamed at the top of her voice.
What the - is de malta wild yo.
woman" asked her father, as he
came out Of his room in his night
shirt,
Nah husband has a razor aftah
me-" she shrieked. zen All is afraid
he Is gwine kill me-"
Husband. husband" repeated pa,
why. dingbust 20 onery skin, yo hus
band amt eben in de house,
He is so. he is So" insisted Annie,
there he is. standing behind YOU"
Pa looked. but ke couldn't see a
thlng. He grabbed Annie and showed
her outdoors. telling her to stay there
until she cQ<dd behave herself.
He shut The door and went to bed
aslps Annie kept up her yelling I'M
Fop heard her and locked her up,
+. A. was just plain case of DTS.
FIhe court told Annie that she could
do ID. T. double time) because she
liquors up too often. Sixty days for
her.
The Hoodoe Cane.
;, Jerry Robbins owns a great big
He is very proud of this cane, as
a relative of his once killed
deputy sheriff with II down in Louis
lana
Jerry inherited the cane after Its
owner was attended to.
He has had 1t hanging above tn,
mantel in his room.
saturday night he was about TO
get II down to show II to a visitor
and 1t was gone.
The next morning he discovered
the cane driven deep in the GROUND
and q rope tied to it and a dog
standing near with the rope tied to
his collar.
Jerry recognized the dog. He un-
tied him and with great effort got
his cane out Of the ground.
He went Immediately to where
George Wise lived. George was at
church. Jerry went to the church.
He called George out.
George came. And before he could
explain how, he came to take the
cane. Jerry lit in to him.
Things did not turn out as Jerry
expected. He was pretty we'll whip
ped, when George was asked to let
up by some one in the crowd that
had gathered.
The court told Jerry that he was
to blame. He started the tight with
George and it was his own fault
that he got licked. George was re-
leased.
Boy, Page tzI.
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