A SMILE OR TWO
A Smile or Two Happy Family!—A little girl was lost on the street, and was brought into the police station. The officers tried in every way to learn her name. Finally one of the officers...
...she likes him...
...Harper's Bazaar...
...Duty Held Him.—The traveling salesman had four minutes in which to catch his train...
...he asked the street-car conductor...
...Breaking it by Degrees.—Little Ethel had been brought up with a firm hand and was always taught to report misdeeds promptly...
...I pounded it with your watch...
...Well, in might be worse...
...But how on earth did you do it, Ethel...
...One afternoon she came sobbing penitently to her mother...
...No, sah...
...Puck...
...Why," responded the child, innocently, "she don't call him any names...
...Dis is muh cousin, Ink Judson, dat looks so much like me and steals everything he kin lay his dog-gawn han's on...
...Ah's at home dis minute, sah, uh-sleeping de sleep o' de jest...
...humbly replied a frightened voice...
...Yes," the bell-ringer answered, "but I have to stay with my car...
...Life...
...An Alibi.—"Mordecai Judson," roared Colonel White, who had been aroused in the middle of the night by a suspicious noise in his poultry house, "is that you in there, you black thief...
...Youth's Companion...
...Mother, I—I broke a brick in the fireplace...
...Can't you go faster than this...
...Finally one of the officers said: "Tell me, little girl, what name does your mother call your father...
Vol. 4 • November 1912 • No. 47
