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THE NORMAL ADVANCE 195The bell had been tinkling incessantly for Miss McKamey: Is there alcohol in cider?
close to fifteen minutes. At length the waiter Sigler: Inside who?came out and spoke as follows to the sole cus- tomer in the restaurant: Employer: So you want a job as watchman ?Did you ring the bell, sir? Now I want a man for watchman that is alert,Long pause. wide awake, hears and sees everything, letsGood land no, man! exploded the patient nothing get past, sleeps with one eye and bothcustomer. I have been tolling it. I thought ears open some one who—that you were dead. Applicant: Say, I guess Ill send my wife. around for this job.Time: Cold bleak January day.Place: Lonesome country road. Enthusiastic Young Lady: Where did youWeather conditions: Very strong wind. get that heart-rending description of a sickScenery: A thinly clad old darky astride a child?balky mule. Great Author: Thats the way my boy saysConversation: Mule, do go on. (Pause) he feels when he doesnt want to go to school.Wind, where was yoall last July? Hyndman: Stork, wont you have some ofInterested Young Lady: And do the hero this rice?and heroine marry at the end of all their Stork: Rice is associated with one of thetroubles? saddest experiences of my life.Author (absent mindedly) : No, at the be- ginning. The following is an extract cut from one of the Y. W. C. A. programs:Indignant Young Lady: What is that the You might read just one stanza, if you canattendants are hitting the poor inmates with? decide which ones to omit. If people seemKeeper: That, Miss, is a nut cracker. bored you might omit the whole thing.Of all the wits uses, the main one Is to live well with one who has none.—Emerson. |
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http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/isuarchive/id/32655 |
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Indiana State University Archives |
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