Caricature; wit and humor of a nation in picture, song and story . ou eat all three of them ? These trousers were alwaysmade on a large scale. Twocould get into them with easeand comfort. It was not untilBill began bringing home con-traband pickerel under cover ofhis huge pants that mother sawthe error of her way. If Billhad lugged in a fish across hisshoulder, the warden, who livednext door as a precaution, wouldhave nabbed him. But by slit-ting the pickerels tail and but-toning it over his suspender but-ton, he could tote in twentypounds of fish, provided thepants remained on. Mother changed
Caricature; wit and humor of a nation in picture, song and story . ou eat all three of them ? These trousers were alwaysmade on a large scale. Twocould get into them with easeand comfort. It was not untilBill began bringing home con-traband pickerel under cover ofhis huge pants that mother sawthe error of her way. If Billhad lugged in a fish across hisshoulder, the warden, who livednext door as a precaution, wouldhave nabbed him. But by slit-ting the pickerels tail and but-toning it over his suspender but-ton, he could tote in twentypounds of fish, provided thepants remained on. Mother changed the situationby cutting a big V-shaped gashin the upper rim of Bills trou-sers and sewing the gash togeth-er. This puckered Bill up sothat he could wear his pantswithout using suspenders, andhe grew quite proud over had a blood-curdling ad-venture with those hirsute pants once. He had a girl—also an ice-boat. In constructing the latter, Bill hadstolen the sheets from the spare bed to use as a crime was not discovered until mother accused the. AS GOOD AS THE BEST OF THEM. Oh, I dont luiow. She aint got anything on me 1 presiding elder of the theft, and Bill manfully openedhis heart and confessed. Bill invited the girl to go ice-yotting—some spell ityacht, but I cant. She was tickled to death to go, andBill tucked her in snugly and then wedged himself intowhat space she didnt make use of. He was wearing hishairiest pants and he fitted the yacht like a new boot doesa bunion. The boat behaved well, and as Bill was a natural-bornsailor he fairly dazzled the girl by the style in which hehandled it. In due time, however, the girl hinted thather folks usually had supper about six, and Bill woke commenced to crawl out ofhis corner. Then he hesitatedand looked at the girl in analarmed manner. He startedagain, and again glanced idiot-ically at the girl. He then feltaround critically with his chilly truth was out—hisshaggy trousers had frozen fastto
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