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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 572, 28 August 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)

I flever argy again a.suecess/, says Artemus Ward ] when I see a rattlesnaix's lied stickling out of a holej I bear off to the left, > arid say to miself that hole belongs to th'at snaix, A man got out of bed early the other, morning to look for burglars, but' finding none, came: back; muttering;' ') :thought: I "heard: something s breaking:anyway. I guess dear;'; said--his wife, glancing; toward '■th&.\vindpw ! an_d,the : rp?.y 7 tinU,d ; beams ?of the .east, ' I guess jt.was the/break of day.f . , ... A passer-by put His;head : in' at the window .of • ; th6 shbp-'where aii ,{ honest 'cobbler was* working, never thinking of evil, aiid ; 'said 'Well, my friend, how- many thieves are there in .this'-street, - without counting yon?' :/What !l< yelled'Hihe cobbler, ' without counting me ; ?! ;; '-Well, : thejn, : . said : his imperturbable questioner, ,'hoyv many are there, counting you . At the time Dr. Johnson visited Aberdeen, an old turreted house in Huxfen-row- was being newly harled. Struck; with, fthisj .operation, the doctor approached the labourer, anil inquired how he produced that . The man explained the composition, . and: the doctor requested next'to see'How'iifc was' applied. ' But,' perhaps,''said 'he;- 1 1- -am' in." your way, my good frierid-?' " 'M', "iia, ' sir',. 1 ye'ye nane in my way,' said the "labourer,, splashing, a huge trowelful'-on the :wall,. aud plentifully bespattering the doctor'-s person y 'naj na, ye're nae in my way,:if nae' in. hyer!.<• ■;