"Only these two came out good because, don't you see, I'm an
amateur yet," was her come back.

Then she looked lovingly at the result of her days work and began
to peel some bicarbonate of magnesia off her knuckles with the nut
cracker.

"Only two out of 21,219--I think you ought to call it a long shot
instead of a snap shot," I whispered, after I had dodged behind a
tree on the lawn.

She went in the house without saying a word and I took out my
pocketbook and looked at it wistfully.




JOHN HENRY ON THE GRIP

Say, did you ever spar a few hot rounds with a real attack of grip?

When it comes right down to a case of being a Bad Boy the grip has
every other disease slapped to a sit-down.

I had the grip some weeks ago and ever since my system has felt
like eight cents worth of cheese.

The medicine sharps tell us that the grip is caused by a little
germ which emigrated to this country originally from Russia.