Caricature; wit and humor of a nation in picture, song and story . INVITED OUT. How did her father treat you ? Quite warmly. He invited me out. • Indeed! Yes. He said, Come outside, where therell be no dangerof smashing the furniture. What Broke Him. UIGGINS had acquired a habit that he found hard t(* break. It came from desk-work in an office wherethere was little to do and none too much to pay. He hadtorn a piece of paper from a tab and rolled and unrolledit between the thumb and forefinger for so many yearsthat he found it hard to think without this accompani-ment. Try as he would, he could
Caricature; wit and humor of a nation in picture, song and story . INVITED OUT. How did her father treat you ? Quite warmly. He invited me out. • Indeed! Yes. He said, Come outside, where therell be no dangerof smashing the furniture. What Broke Him. UIGGINS had acquired a habit that he found hard t(* break. It came from desk-work in an office wherethere was little to do and none too much to pay. He hadtorn a piece of paper from a tab and rolled and unrolledit between the thumb and forefinger for so many yearsthat he found it hard to think without this accompani-ment. Try as he would, he could not break himself ofthe habit, and finally gave up in despair. One day, while on thestreet, a weighty mat-ter kept troubling him,but he found it impos-sible to think puttinghis fingers into his vest-pocket, they came incontact with a ten-dollarliill. It was all themoney he had left fromthe last months out the bill, herolled and unrolled itwhile thinking out theproblem. At the con-clusion he carelesslytore the bill into bit
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