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Title: Said in fun
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Welch, Philip Henry, 1849-1889
Subjects: American wit and humor
Publisher: New York : Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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MH. HOW is your new gns-metre comiiiK on. Jones—is it asuccess ? ■No, its :i failure ; I cant get anybody to touch it. What seems to be the trouble ? I was unfortunate in selecting a name for it : I musthave been a fool ! What do you call it? The Busy Bee. HE KNKW HE WAS RIGHT. Young Hopeful—Papa, the prefix trans means across, doesnt it ?Old Hopeful (delightedly)—Yes, my son ; as in transatlantic, which means across the Atlantic.Young Hopeful—Well, then, transparent means a cross parent, doesnt it ? TIME IS MONEY. Magistrate—Ten dollars or ten days. Uncle Rastus ?Uncle Rastus (after long thought)—Well, I guess Ell takethe ten dollars. 59 HIS EARS DECHIVED HIM. FEATHERLY (making- an evenin.^- call)—So your motherhas returned from the country, Miss Clara ?Miss Clara—Oh, no ; she woiit be back until next week.Eeatherly (surprised)—Strange ! Is not that her voice 1 hear upstairs?Miss Clara (in a constrained tone)—No ; that is Bobby atwork with his new scroll saw. 60
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i 6i ON THE ISLAND. VISITOR (at BlackwelTs Island)—Well, my poor woman,what brought yoLi here ?Woman—De Brack Maria, sah, an de ferry bot.Visitor—Yes, I understand. But what are you in for ?Woman—Ise in fo ten days, sah. AN UNFORESEEN ACCIDENT. Yes, sighed a recent widow, we are very unfortunate.Poor John was out of work a long time, and when hegot a good job he died. What job did he get ? she was asked.* He joined a circus, and got twenty dollars a week for put-ting his head in the lions mouth twice a day. Thatsall he had to do. It seems hard he should have died.•• What did he die of? The lion bit his head off. A YOUNC WOMANS TASTE. Mrs. Bunker (of Boston)—I think Miss Waldo was the most perfectly dressed woman in the room.Mrs. Emhrson—She has exejuisite taste. Did she wear jewelry ?Mrs. Bunkkr—Spectacles only. 62 Y RHCALLING A QUOTATION. OUNG FEATHFRLY-Do you recall that quotation, MissWaldo, be,<(iniiinK : No pent up—no pent up—pent upIthaca contracts Miss

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