The Archive · 1938

Leading the Horse

A weary tramp was walking along a canal bank when he hailed a man in a passing barge.

"Will ye give me a lift, mister?"

"Ay," replied the bargeman, "but yell have to work yer passage."

"That's all right. What'll I have to do?"

"Lead the horse along the bank."

Summary Tue university president was delivering his baccalaureate speech. In the audience were an elderly man and woman, obviously foreigners, who were having some trouble understanding the presidents address to the class, of which their son was 2 member.

"What he say?" finally demanded the mother, frowning.

"Who?" asked the father.

say?"

"The beega folia in black robes. What he "He say school is out"

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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