Get Next! by Hugh McHugh
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If that's the case I'm glad the Japs put the boots to the Czar. I
wish they would go after him again and kick his crown off. I'll bet even money that the father of the first grip germ must have been a bombshell and his mother was some relation to one of Kuropatkin's retreats. It's dollars to pretzels that the grip germ is the busiest idea that was ever chased by a doctor. Nobody knows just how or when the grip germs break into the system, but once they get a foothold in the epiglottis nothing can remove them except inward applications of dynamite. The grip germ hates the idea of race suicide. From one small germ there will arise and go forth a family the size of which was never dreamed of in the philosophy of our wise and busy President. I don't know just exactly how they happened to warm wise to me, but a newly married couple of grip germs took a notion to build a nest somewhere on the outskirts of my solar plexus, and two hours later they had about 233 children attending the public school in my medusa oblongata; and every time school would let out for recess I would go up in the air and hit the ceiling with my top-knot. Before the next morning came all these grip children had graduated from school and after tearing down the school-house the whole bunch had married and had large families of their own, and all hands were |
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