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DO lOU MEAN TO SAY YOU MEAN HAVE' MORE THAtf ONE IS What the Billboards Said. AN EXCEPTION TO EVERY RULE WHOLLY UNDESERVED KNEW WHEN HE WAS WELL OFF HAD 'EM GOIN' : - « » H., "Johnnie, what do you mean by putting a tack on Willie Jones' seatf Aw, teacher, didn't you Jes* tell us that all our feelin' was in our brain? How was I to know that Willie Jones was the exception to the rule?" "They say she'll probably win the peace prlxe." "What, she! Why, to my certain knowledge that woman's responsible for at least a dozen marriages." First Convict--I afntcha? * Second Convict--Nawl are awful on the outaMe. uplifters. understand yer time's up tomorrow. Quess yer glad I dont wanna leave now. They tell me things ~ Prohibition/ Sunday blue laws, profiteers and Jenks--What's the grand duke having your car painted yellow on one Side and blue on the other?" Bangs--It's great, I'm telling you. You should hear how confused the witnesses are and how they contradict each other in court when I* have a damage case on. AND IN OTHER TOWNS, TO a Motorist--It's laid Ford has made ten million cars. Pedestrian--Some' mistake there-- there's* that many Fords right in this town I AND FATHER'S MONEY'S GONE DUUUtf A Father*-Now that you've finished college, my tMl, l*Mt Jlo doubt that you've learned all about the kind of work with which you intend to earn your living. The Son--Pon m" soul fathah, I cawn't remembah of them teaching anything about work. NOT FOUND YET <-« Neighboring Bungalist--Hay, Brown, Where's that portable bungalow you just put up on your lot disappeared to? Brown--Tied the dog to it when I went to town this morning and the brute must have seen a rabbit run by. A PAID COMPANION Ps Applicant--Yes, I've had a thorough training in reading and story tell-, ing. But do you consider an exclusive course of animal stories the best thinq for your children. 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Smith--"How can be >do that" Jones--"By being, al- Poor Polly A sailor from the backwoods sent his old mother a parrot as a present. Some time later he came home leave. He looked for the parrot, could not see It anywhere In, house. Carefully broaching th'e ject to his mother, he asked her how she liked it. "Ah, It was a handsome bird," she said "But it was a tough one." Mrs. Homebody--"Does band talk in his sleep?" your hus- Mrs. Chatterton--" I don't know. He can't' go to sleep till I'm through talking, to him, and 1 don't get through till I fall asleep." Serious Ailment One day recently a little boy entered a chemist's shop 'In the East end and told the chemist that his father was : in great pain and could he give him something to relieve It. "What »©rt of pain Is it Tracked the chemist. "Eternal pains," replied the young ster!--London Morning Poet. Fairu TalA As* -TWiy-GRAHAM-BONMEBt I ^ A VB'NM \.'t«ON , DEXTER AND WORDS It was really most amazing the way Dexter could use words when It cam* around the time for the circus to t?. v P be arriving 1ft town. He Just naturally used words and \ /3^4fcsUK\ $ words and words \ about the circus. ^ Y e t a l l t h e w o r d s m e a n j t something, a n A • they seemed tff • mean more thair' usual when Dexter used them. . - F o r e x a m p l » . -k. vvwaj^* Pvery year Dexter « said the circus wait going to be bigger and better than ever. It was what the billboards said. too. But when Dexter said so It became so real that the very words "bigger and better" grew In size, it appeared. Really if you could have - looked straight Into people's minds where their thoughts all dwell you would seen the words "bigger and better" growing and growing and looking much larger than any of the other thoughts, and much larger, too, than any of the other words which expressed their thoughts. Ever since he could remember Dexter had loved the circus. He had always found no trouble whatever in getting up the morning of the day the circus came to town. He loved to lead a pony in the parade. Was there anything In the world to equal a circus parade? Dexter didn't think there was. He loved to carry water to the el#» phants. He loved to hang around p. circus and do any odd chores he was ' asked to do. He loved to be let in free. And after all that was quite MtmL Was there anyone who didn't enjoy a ticket to the circus? If there was such a person. Dexter didn't know him. He loved everything about the circus, the very smell of the tent under tlM hot sun, the smell of the peanuts, tttt smell of the great elephants, the play* lng of the band, the glorious costume* the beautiful ladles vor«, the han4k some suits the animals wore--they at> ways wore the same suits! He loved the clowns and their funny costumes and their jokes and their laughter and their way of looking up at the crowds who sat all around is* side the circus tents, rows above ro«M of people. Each year he thought he could nf| wait until the circus came to town. Each year he thought he could net wait, when the circus bad left towst for it to come again. A whole year was such a long tin* to wait. And then, as circns time drew near once more, and the billboards began to . appear, Dexter talked of nothing but the circus. Oh, how he did talk about the circus, He told you what was on the bi!|» ,J*ofirds and though you could see tip' billboards for yourself it waa eveft more wonderful when Dexter about them. That was because Dexter was s* marvelous with his circus words. That was what he was--marvelous with circus words. He told everyone he met what th# billboards said, he described the pictures that showed the ladles jumping through hoops, the great, wild anl* mals of the jungle looking at you, an<| looking wild in their pictures. He descr 1 b e d the different rings the circus would have, he told of the k people who rode horses and how they jumped and did such, remarkable acts. He said they were the greatest riders In the whole world. He said the trapeze performers were so daring that you would hold your breath when you saw them. He said the elephants were so intelligent you'd feel quite small beside them--In more ways than one. He said the trained seals would make you laugh and chuckle and that the clowns would make you sliout with merriment. He said all these things that could be read upon the billboards but when Dexter described them they were made grander than ever--just lite th* circus Itself^ ^ Would Be Excused When Jimmy left the table before the others had finished eating he was careful to say, "'Sense me. please.'* to which his mother or daddy would always reply. "Very well." v One day they were busy talking and didn't notice Jimmy's repeated " 'Scuse me." Finally, in • disgusted tone. said! "Can't nobody here say *v well'?' vJ. $o Daring. High Finance First Crook--What's your bustneesf Second Crook--I'm the fellew that sells the railroad station to strangers. What's yours? First Crook--I sell lotg in the city park. What* do you asff te trading propertied? - ' a Home Definition Tesfcher--lU>bby, what Uoee mean ? Bobby--"La*y" means always ing your little atater fel«t * *»>»• 1