The Coconino sun., 1923-03-30

jim Rupe, up here last week from
Glendale, said he was asked for money
in Phoenix by a beggar. Jim gave
him dime and told him he wasn't
doing it for his, the beggar's pleas
ure, but for his own.
WELL" said the beggar, "why don't
you give me quarter and have a
real good time 2"
Just after Ray Babbitt shaved off
his mustache, few weeks ago, a
travelling man dropped it to see him.
Ray couldn't quite place the man,
and the latter wasn't slow in discov-
ering it.
ooh, Mr.. Babbitt," he said, 'Pm
afraid you don't know me without
gour mustache."
Ed Whipple, the undertaken, when
he went to the home of colored cou-
pie, the male half Of which had just
died. asked the weeping woman
who opened the door:
did Zero Blank live here z"
"Yassuh," she said.
II would like to see the remains" !"
Ed said.
use de remains" she answered
proudly.
A colored woman dropped in to the
Weatherford hotel and asked Mrs.
Hall, the proprietor, if she had any
work sor her. Mrs. Hall asked her
where she had been working, and
then why she had left the place.
"Oh," she said, Il jes' couldn't
stan de way de missus an her hus-
BAN used to quarrel all de time"
"Oh, no." said Mrs. Hall, I'm sure
they didn't actually quarrel" !"
Deed, mum, ali de time. When it
wasn't me an her it was me an him. .
Carter Joy says he's got a scheme
to make lot of money in case we
ever have another war, and he's go
ing to work it right away, so he'll be
all ready when the time comes. Car
ter says he's going to cross carrier
pigeons with parrots, so we can send
verbal messages through the enemy 8
lines.
Once when Walter Runke thought
he had appendicitis and then it turned
out to be acute indigestion, he re-
piled to a friend who had written him
sympathetic letter:
'sI rejoice that the difficulty lay III
the table of contents rather than in
the appendix
Personally, we think he shouldn't
have been quite so particular, but
some men are SO exacting. Referring
to DR.. r. o. Raymond, who, when he
was IN St. Louis last, after having
dinner at one of the best-known he-
tells there, wrote the. management
II have the honor to inform you
that | lunched in your grill-room to-
day and had as my guest three gem
tlemen. Among the other things, an
omelet was served. 1t contained only
three flies. l naturally found this
very embarrassing, as in- ORDER to
make an equitable division OF the om-
elet, it was necessary either to div
ide a fly-a nice bit of carving as you
must concede-or forego a fly myself,
| beg to suggest in the future, when
an 0melet is served Tor TOUR pefonS,
that the chef should particularly see
to it that it either has (a) four flies,
or (b) no flies at all.
The teacher asked Leslie Wyatt, in
SPELLING class, the difference between
the words results" and "conse-
| quences.
He explained Results are what
you expect, and consequences are
what you get"
One of our citizens frequently re-
quested the county board of supervis.
ors to modify their monthly report OF
expenditures. The report showed q
certain sum had been paid to John
I Blank ct al" Now Mr.. Blank COM
plains people don't understand anc
think he is getting all the money"
'FEt aP' means "and others"
| S. o. Miller, the popular old scout
| of Williams. who used TO be a locomo-
tive engineer, was a witness here the
other day in the Patton damage case
against the railroad company, IN