The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-06-30
TALES OF TOWN
PRO PATRIA

oH1oheu pipe hi Gay
And the twins both chewed.
But Tip kept a-diPging
4 And he never lost heart,
For the dogs hunted rabbits
| And they caught right smart;
And the bone-spavlned filly
And the mule pulled a pillow,
And they lived off the giyings
OF the old roam COW,
And the acorn-fattened farrow
] OF the razor-back sow.
| But here the story closes
! OF my little romance
For the seven sons are sleeping
On the battlefelds of France;
But their daddy grows tobacco
And triffics still in skins,
And the little wrinkled nanny
Has another pair Of twins.
|
Adam succumbed to an apple, but
nowadays it's the peaches men fall
for.
When the teacher asked how many
kinds Of flowers there are, one boy
replied; "Whld. tame and collie"
II figures don't lie, then why do
they give so many different results
when a newspaper man tries to figure
interest.
When the modern barefoot boy fl
nally is convinced that he will have to
wash his feet before he goes to bed
he finds the tub occupied by his fash
ionable big sister washing her knees.
A farmer down the valley has a
brood SOW that gave birth to 10 pigs.
Fifteen Of the pigs are alive, but at
lunch time there is a grand scramble
because there are only IL available
faucets.
Here's a story of two Texas ne
groes: One of them had been brag-
ging about all the places he had seen
and the other said: "Have you ever
he'd delerium tremens ?" "No."
"Then you amt never seen nothing
and you amt never been nowhere"
=
Don't you suppose when the neigh
bors used to gather down there where
Noah was building the ark, they
would say that if any flood did come
it would be on account of the outra-
geous clothes the women were wear
ing?
Little Bobby was playing with his
fathers field glassse, and happening
10 look at him through the big end, he
exclaimed: "0h, daddy, you are so
far away you look like a distant rela-
i've"
Little Mary was visiting her grand
mother in the country. Walking in
he garden, she changed to see a pea
,ock, bird she had never seen before.
After gazing in silent admiration, she :
an quickly into the house and cried
tut: 20, granny, come and see! One
Il your chickens in bloom"
Here's newspaper mans definition 9
# gentleman: "A man that's clean B
inside and outside; who neither looks p
Ip to the rich nor down on the poor; a
Who can lose without squealing and o
vim without Dragging; who is consid- i
rate to women. children and old peo- {
lie; who is too brave to lie, too gen o
roust to cheat, and who takes his &
hare of the world and lets other peo- a
lie have theirs" 0
The judge halted the trial while he 4
ampled the liquor offered in evidence. r.
Ie slipped little Of it and made a s.
ny face. "How long have you been u
riuking this?" he asked the defend y
MT. six MONTHS answered the Gull
rit. "You may CO." said the court. D.
Your home brew is your own punish "
Ient." NJ
A teacher was explaining to a class m
ow birds protect trees and farm
rops by eating worms. Even the
.nglish sparrows are useful, she said. b
Ioticing that the boys were very at te
entive she said to one Of them; a
Willie, which do you think are the W
'orse, the worms or the sparrows ?" r;
don't know" he said, Il never had n,