Undoubted Progress AN enthusiastic but unskilful golfer, he confided to his caddie: "You know, I seem to be improving., Can you see any difference?
"Yes," replied the caddie; "You've ad your air cut."
I'll be Waiting was Donovan's first sea voyage, His wife was very anxious about him, so she sent a note to the minister asking him to pray for him.
Unfortunately the minister was in a hurry when on the following Sunday, he read out the e. "Patrick Donovan having gone to see his fe, desires the congregation to pray for his safi Reaction Identical MUDDLEFORD, vho suffered acutely from neuralgia, met his doctor in the street, "Doc-for," he said, thinking he could get advice free, "I know a man who is suffering agonies from neuralgia, At times he is so bad he simply howls with pain! What would you do in that case?"
"Well" was the doctor's reply, "I suppose I should howl with pain, too!"
"Quick on the Draw"
Mike O'Leary got a job at an observatory and spent most of the time watching the professors at the telescope, One day a professor walked in, went to a telescope, and began to make observations, Just then a star fell, Mike gasped, "Begorra, that was a fine shot, sir," he said, with great' admiration, "Why, ye hardly had time to take aim at it."
Illegitimate THE new vicar was calling on his parishioners, and in one house he found a woman sitting by the fire Jistening to the radio, After chatting for a few moments, he said, pointing to the set, "Don't you think it would look much better and more like a home, if in the place of that radio set you had a baby in cot?"
"Well, if you say so, I suppose it's all right," she said; "but the only thing is I'm not marne:
Fortitude Tur moan of the prison whistle filtered through the death-house walls, lessened, and died. Tangible silence crept back to crowd the tiny cell.
One trembling hand shielded Montgomery's eyes from the lone light bulb as he lay back on the bunk.
"Only minutes now." His bloodless lips formed each word as though speech were a half-forgotten are. "How did any one ever tand it in here alone? a man even when he has a tri Ah Lee's eyes regarded him impassively. "You gree then with the warden, that company comforts the man who waits for death?"
Montgomery's body jerked at the word "death."
"Don't you?... Don't you?" he insisted shrilly, "How would you like being in here alone? With nothing to keep your mind off that door, knowing you're going to be led through it and..." Montgomery covered his eyes again as though to shut out what awaited in that little room adjoining the death cells.
Ah Lee's voice was gentle: "Do not grieve, my friend. All men must die sometime."
But they don't all die like that! Sitting there strapped down, helpless, while they The words trailed into mute terror as Monty saw the group of officials before the u ready, son?" The warden's face expressionless as Montgomery shrank back against the wall, "When is man every ready to die?"
Ah Lee stepped forward between two guards and started his slow march into the little room.
Inmate 16902 Washington State Penitentiary In. "Liberty."
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