IN LIGHTER VEIN.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 62, 15 March 1910, Page 6

IN LIGHTER VEIN.

. Jackson: "Heaven bless him! He showed confidence in me when the clouds were dark and threatening." Wilson: "In what way?" Jackson: "He lent me an umbrella." Scratclileigli: ' 'The poem I sent you, Mr Editor, contains the deepest secrets of my soul." Editor: "1 know it, sir, and no one shall ever find them out through me." Phelps: ' 'That is the sunset my daughter -painted. She studied paiatinb abroad, .you know." Nobbs: "Ah! that explains it. I never saw a sun3ot like that in his country." They were making lemonade, and the pretties girl of the party asked: "Where is Jack L ? I want him to help us." "Why do you want liim?" asked her friend. "Because," was the artless answer, "he's such a good squeezer." POSSIBILITIES. A chocolate darky and his "yaller" girl were walking along together. "I'se skeered mos' def, Rastus." "What am yo' skeered ob, wot man?" I'se skeered yo'se gwine to kiss me." "How kin I kiss yo' when I'se got a bucket on ma liaid, a wash pot in one han', an' a turgey gobbler in de udder ?" "Oh, well, yo' fool, I wuz thinkin' yo 3 could set de bucket ob watah on de groun', put the turkey down an 5 turn de wash pot ovali him, den set me on de wash pot, frow yo' aluns round me, an' des hep yo'sef."-