The Coconino sun., 1924-07-18


Lee Allsup comes to bat with the
recollection of the most absent-minded
man he ever knew who scratched his
hot cakes and poured his syrup down
the back of his neck.
Olaf had a little dog,
Twas free from fleas and sins.
One day it squeezed through the
fence,
And barked-its little shins.
BOB CARING
The Victor dog sat on a talking
machine
And the record ran so fast
That the dogs head caught up with
his tail
/ And he didn't have room to pass
/ His masters voice.
HERB sCURLoCK
Sid Gassman is thinking of laying
in new line of classy neckwear-
railroad ties. for trainmen.
! She was crying. "Let me kiss
away your tears" he begged. She
fell into his arms. Yet the tears
flowed on. "Can nothing stop them 2"
he asked. NO. she murmured. Il
have hay fever, you know. But go
on with the treatment"
Rev. H. F. Softley remembers once
congratulating a man whose wife had
just presented him with twins.
"The Lord has smiled on you,' he
told the man.
"Sniled on mel" repeated the man.
"He laughed out loud at meH
| DR.. M. G. Fronske was examining
his heart.
You're having trouble with angina
pectoris," he said.
mo, doc, that amt her name,' the
man said.
Buck Taylor out at Fort Valley
pulled up a hill of spuds the other
day to see how they were setting, and
before he could plug up the hole
again more than two bushels rolled
out and down the side of the hill.
| GS, AIIAlOuS 1HquiDCIt q 1893
widow is one whose husband died of
the hay fever.
Did you ever see crease in a
fat mans trousers?
How could knock-kneed man walk
unless his knees cooperated-each let
ting the other get around?
Milt Powers told at Rotary last
week about an old maid that, during
the course of her confession told the
priest that about 20 years before that
she was engaged to man.
The priest reassured her, saying,
there was no use in confessing that.
"But, Father" she said, Il like to
talk about it.
The true spirit of cooperation, Milt
said, was well expressed in the incl
dent of the driver of flivver who
bumped into the rear of a costly car.
A policeman came up, berated him
and asked his name.
"Pat Malone" answered the offend
er.
"Oi'm secretary Of the Knights OF
Columbus" was the answer.
Drive along" said the cop. "What
in hell did yez let thot big car back
into yez for?"
Tony Johns of Prescott, president
of the Arizona Wool Growers associa-
ton, says severe criticism sometimes
comes from lack of proper under
standing like he says, when two young
people, male and female, at public
dinner, were talking about their cars.
"What color is your body?" ne ask
ed.
ssPink," she said. "What is yours y
"Tan with brown stripes" he told
her.
An old maid sitting on the opposite
side of the table got up in rage and
said the world was Gaming to a
dickens of pass when young people
talked that intimately in public.
| don't believe the name of this
Garland Prarie couple ought to be
printed in connection with the follow
ing occurrence, alleged to be true. He
is farmer.
After having driven to town with q
load of potatoes he decided to sup
prise his wife by dressing up.
So he bought suit of clothes, new
underwear, hat, pair of shoes, anc
put them under the seat. On his way
home he stopped at the lake, took of
his old clothes and threw them in
Then he looked under the seat fol
his new outfit. Everything was gone
He thought for a moment, then ht
climbed into his wagon, cracked his
whip and said, "Gid-ap, I'm goin' t
s'prise her anyhow by heck!"
nRUIS F0IIND RIG METEOR