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OBSERVATIONS BY REV, GABE TUCKER,

Y OU may notch it on tie palin’s as a mighty re,sky plan
To make your judgment by the clo'es dat kivers up a
man;
For I hardly needs to tell you how you often come ercross
A fifty-dollar saddle on a twenty-dollar hoss.
An’, walkin’ 111 de low gronn’s, you diskiver, as you go,
Dat the fines' shuck may hide de meanes’ nubbin in a row!
T think a man has got a mighty slender chance for heben
Dal holds on to his piety but one day out o’ sehen ;
Dat talks ah out de sinners wid a heap o’ solemn chat,
An’ nebber draps a nickel in de missionary hat;
Dat’s foremost in the meetitv house for raisin all de dmnes,
But lays aside his ’ligion wid his Sunday pantaloons 1
J . A . M acon.

MR. EISSELDORF AND THE WATER PIPE.
T T A N S , dot vater pipe gifts 110 vater alretty, und you vos petter
i X sent oop dot hi umber to vix id vonce more,”
This remark was addressed to a highly rcspected German
citizen as he sat in front of his cosy grate. He received the announce­
ment with evident disfavor.
" Vot 3 Dot vater pipe again! I vas shoost congratulatin" meinscli
dot de ice vagon comes no more, und dot new hat vos paid for, und
dot Christmas vas a long vays ahead— und now von off dose hlum­
bers ! Mein gracious, Gretchen 1 [ got 310 money for blumbers.
[ vixes id myself.1' “ Joe ! ” addressing his ten-year-old son, “ vere vas
dot leak ? ”
Then Joe proceeded to explain that the leal-: was under the house,
where the stout frame of his worthy ancestor could hardly go.
" N ofler mind, nelTer mind. You gets me some hipe und a monkey
wrench, und I save dot blumber’s bill.
So the next day Joe got the pipe and the : non key wrench, and hia