The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1922-08-03
electric fan you've got out there cool
ing the horses"

a grand row because she would b
obliged to sit up all night. The gen
tleman gave the lady his space ant
during the night he wired his wifi
rs follows: "Wijl be home tomorrow
just gave bern to an old lady"
She wrote him note which read
"Dear John-Meet me at the tryst.
| ing place at $3.50 this evening, with
out fale." And John answered: "In
that bright lexicon Of youth which
tate has reserved for a noble man.
hood there is no such word as fale.'
A fool there was and he loved his
brew,
Even as you and /.
Said he with glee, "Ha, new recipe
III surely have to try"
So he got some hops,
And the rest Of the props,
And he started in to brew,
But the stuff got thick,
Ard it had no kick,
But it made great shampoo.
One Of the oldest jokes on record
concerns the Swede who was asked
by the Judge if he was married. "Ya,
/ married." said he. Whom did you
marry" 81 married a woman"
"Fooll Did you ever hear of anyone
who did not marry a woman?" "Ya,
my sister; she marry man."
A little girl who lives near town re-
Gently wrote the following letter to
her cousin: 1--WE is all well and
mothers got his Terricks; brother
Tom is got the Hupin Koff, and sis
ter Ann is got babee, and hope
these few lines will find you the same.
Your affecshunate kuzen."
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You can now buy little aluminium
Or silver thingamabobs to insert in
he ends Of a roasting ear, thus doing
lway with the usual case Of butter
myers. Well buttered cheeks and
hin are still fashionable in roasting
ar ime, however. And watermelon
S still eaten in the good old way.
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They were having music memory
ontest in the school. The teacher
nut on the record, "Elegy by Massa-
et," and after playing it, asked those
gho. knew what it was to hold up
heir hands. All hands went up.
Well, Ole, you may tell u.s." said she
0 little Swede school boy from the
ountry. at bane Elijah by Mack
ennett'," said he. I,
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F'ive-year-old Bobby was stroking
is kitten in front of the fireplace in
erfect content. The cat, happy also,
egan to purr and Bobby dragged her
urriedly and roughly away from the
earth. "You mustn't hurt your kit
:, Bobby his mother interposed.
Pm not" protested the young nat
raj historian, "but I've got to get her
way from the fireplace; she's be-
inning to boil"
A young woman entered q store s
lort time ago and asked the clerk e
neither he had "any of those elastic 8
lnds, capable of being elongated and
ljusted at pleasure, and used by the
minnie portion of mankind for put O
1g around the lower extremities of
e locomotive members to keep in 8
e proper position and altitude ha- Il
liaments Of their tibias." s.
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A darkey and his sweetheart, fol- :
wed by three pickaninnies, applied "
the clerk Of southern courthouse h
r \ license to wed. The clerk eyed W
. assemblage doubtfully. Whose =,
ildren are these?" he asked. "Dey h
r'n." was the ready response from a
q man The clerk was scandalized. :.
ing new at his post "You ought =
be ashamed Of yourself waiting to q,
married until you have family r
If grown. "Jedge, you'll have to n,
cuse dat" interrupted the bride, =
eetly. "De roads out our way am u,
badw :,
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Have you noticed how bright and H
tn what lingering lights the fire. h,
Is are equipped this year," asked Fl,
Bill Misgivens. "They seem SIM tn
, wonderful and when flying thru al
, air makes one think of meteors. &c
rave one black chicken in my flock. de
is late forager, and often stays st
! late. The other evening it was or
in the big road especially late,
ching bugs, and when it finally