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60 "THE GLEANER"
Jessie McLean is getting stylish or whatever it is that makes a J:erson called Jessie sign her name Jessica. That's what she's doing. The other <lay she wrote a really high-class, tip-top letter home to her Hon. Pa and of course .she signed her name "Jessica."
Pop wrote back-
Dear Jessica: I received your wel- come letter. Mamka and cousin Tom- ica are quite well. Tomica has a new friend named Samica Jonesica. Aunt Maryica and Uncle Georgica are a- way in Toronto.
Yours ever, Popica.
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Francis Herrington says he gets up and writes verses when he can't sleep. Isn't insomnia a terrible thing?
HA! HA!! HA!!
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MBrg.-Then we're engaged? Shakes-Of course.
Marg.-And am l the first girl you
ever loved?
Shakes-No dear, but I'm harder
to suit now than I used to be. ****
Louise says it's a pretty well known fact that if you give a guy enough rope he'll hang around all evening.
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B o b - N e l l i e c~alled u p t o d a y a n d said she wouldn't be able to meet you to-night.
Don-Well, that's a wait off my mind.
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POME
Ninety-six tomato cans, baked in an **** oven,
Hugh-I'm going to write a story. George-That's a novel idea.
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Guide (In Collingwood clink)- That guy there used to be an author. Innocence-Did he? How interest-
ing! What did he write? Guide-Bum checks.
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Doc. Connolly (in his pop's lending
library) -This is a rare old volume. Frank Teskey-Maybe so, Jbut I
want something well done and hot.
Sixteen more added, kicked in or shoven;
And when the heat's abated, add a little tar,
Thus we have created, a rattling good Ford car.
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Hubert-Haw! Haw! a guy in this book, thinks a football coach has four wheels.
Ronald-Ho! Ho! and how many wheels has the bally thing?
And the radiators hissed.