"PAW" AND HYPNOTISM.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 129, 1 June 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

"PAW" AND HYPNOTISM.

AX EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN HUMOUR*

"Georgie," by S. E. Kiser, published by, T. Fisher Unwin, is a very amusing book-* a genuinely funny piece of American humour. Who fails to laugh at it must have lost the faculty of. risibility. "Paw," the self-sufficient father of the household, is always getting into innocent scrapes or ludicrous positions. A brief extract from the book will, however, reveal more of its character than any amount of writing about it. PAW TRIES A SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT. Paw was reading about a Man getting hypnotised and not eating ennyting- For three weeks, but maw told "him she Didn't beleave such a Thing ever happened, becoz they are so menny frods going on. "Well, I don't no," paw Told her. "Sumtimes I almost beleave I have the power myself if I would Let it gro on me. Almost ennybuddy with a Strong mind has.a misteerlous power over other People, and it Must be hypnotism. Here, George," hessays to me, "come And lets see if I can make You feel enny of the effects." Then he commgnct to wave his Hands in. front of me And rub the sides of my hed. I always hate to see Paw disappointed, so I thot I would help him Along a llttel. "Shut your eyes," lie said, And I shut them. "Now you can't Open them," paw told me. I let on I couldn't, And he says: "There, maw, what did I tell you?" "It's perfeekly wunderfull," maw an.-'.1 il, "but I wish you Wouldn't do it enny more. Praetus on sumbuddy that duzzent belong To our fambly." "There's 110 datager," paw says; "open Your eyes." I opened them, And pretended I dlda't nd where I was. "Is your name Sally Ann?" paw ast, • "Yes, sur," I told him Like if I was a little gurl. "They are only one thing I'm sorry; About," paw sed to maw. "I wisn I would of known I had This power all the time. I mite of Often used it in my bianess. I always had a Strong will tho. After I set My mind on ennything it's easy To feel tne. effects." i Then he sed to me: i "Look out, You got a bumble bee in Youk pocket." I jumped like if I had been stung, and ran around the room hollering: "Take it out! Take it out!" '•There, it's gone," paw says; "noil! You're a little lain in the field." So I got down on my hands And aeos and pretended I was eating grass. "Of course," paw sed, "nobuddy with. & Nordinerry interleckt could do a thing OC this kind. I S'pose one rewon I have the power is becoz My father was a sevmtfc' sou." Maw sat there like if She couldn't hardly; beleave what she Saw till I looked up at Her when paw didn't see me and winked. Then she says: ■ "Yes, that must Be it. I never would o£ thot you had it if I Had only herd about it tho. I wonder if you Could do it with enny* buddy else?" "Of corse," paw told her. "Enny one With a common sized mtod would be help* lesa in my Hands. Whist, George, you're a Rooster!" I slapped my Hands on my sides and crowed. "I'm afrade you mite Keep him under the power too Long," maw told him, so he snapt His fingers and sed all rite. But I ran around and Barked like a Dawg. "All rite! All rite!" says paw, snapping his Fingers some more. Maw she pretended To be offle scared, am! paw hollered: "Good graishus! I can't get Him out of it. I've herd of such things before. Rua for the dokter! This is terrible! Georgiel Georgie! Don't you no your Fawther?" Then I stopt And looked at him as Inno« sunt as I could and sed: "My name Is Sally Ann." After that I started hooping Around the room again, and paw went For his hat, but before he got out he happened to See me and maw laffing, so He threw his hat down and sed Kind of sorrofle: "They are no use ennybuddy trying Siuntifflck experimunts In this fambly becoe they are too menny people in it That never found Out what it is to have serious thots." Extracts from the same set of humoroua writing are published by Sands and Co., In a 1/ paper-bound volume, called "The Pa Papers." They contain some of the artleleu in Fisher Unwin's publication and 'other*. In a gloomy age this excellent fooling If very acceptable,