The Archive · 1941

Hen's Dilemma

Fst. Farmer: "What's ailin' that old en of yours?"

Second Farmer; "Shell shock. Ducks came out of the eggs shed been sitting' on."

Oil. Right "I HEAR you struck a 'Gusher' down in Texas."

"That's an insult, suh. We never strike a.

Tick-Tock "So: the hold-up man wouldn't fake grand. pop's old-fashioned watch?"

"Yes, he said he didn't want to be arrested for violating the anti-noise ordinance." money to "I thought he gave you only $1,000"

"Yes, but he gave it to me to burn his love letters."

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

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