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"a Little Nonsense."

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
January
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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-Regular Caller- 'Td like to see wir father, Tommy, if he isn't on;uged." Tommy - fie is; but what's the matter with Clara? She isn't engaged. - Lmvell Citizen. - "Where is the Island of Java situated?" asked a school teacher of a small, rather forlorn-looking boy. "I tlunno, sir." "Don't you know whero coffee comes from?" "Yes, sir; We borrows it from the next door neighbor.1'- Toledo Bladc. - A young wonian in Eastcrn Mainc cries by the hour becauso she U tall. - Exchange. This is a rather peculiar caso, but we have often heard of a man committing suicide because he was "short." - Norristown lltrald. - "What luck did you have, dear?" asked his wife, as he returned home from a day's fishing. "Splendid," he said; "just look at them." Opening his basket he displayed a lot of eauMgea. The bntcher had mixed those baskets up.- N. Y. Sun. - "Here is alittle thing I just daahed off," said a buxom maiden as sho entered the sanctum. The editoi was just about to state that he didn't use poetry, when the young lady produced a beautiful roll of butter. it was accepted with thanks. - Burlington Free Press. - Polite Tramp- Will you obligo me with a little vinegar and a bit of rag, madam? I've bruised my heel. Lady of the House - I'm very sorry, but our vinegaris all out; woufdn'ta little New England rum do as wellP Tramp- I don't know, madam; but l'lltry it, and - er - never mind the rag. - Puck. - Sceno- Art school. Mrs. Nouveau- -And is that large pieture somo ofyourwork? Pupil- Mine? Oh.no, madam! That is óne of the oíd mulera. Mrs. Nouveau (in an undertone to hor companion) - I don't like to hear a young man speak so disrespeetfully of his teachers.- N. Y. Telegram. - "Torn," said an Irishman to his office boy, "was this loiap of ice put in the water cooler to-day? "No, sir," replied the youth. "It wns left over from last evening, and as it was a large lump, I thought It Tfould tmswer." "Yon did, ch, yon rascal? Throw it out! throw it out! and pui in some fresh ice, an' niver again try to palm off a stale artiele on me." - N. Y. Muil. - Ethelberta- I want a pair of slippers for pa. Nuniber tras, jilease, and -squeaky. Genial shoemaker - Squeaky, miss? I'm afraid wc liaven't any of that kind. Ethelberta- I'm so orryl Couldn't you make hiin a (ueaky pair? Tmn íh a certain young gentleman who visits me freineiitiy and- and it wouhl ba very !onvenieut for him to know iust whi'ti

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Ann Arbor Courier
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