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As the old gentleman struck the platform and began to arrange his toilet
he met Fitzgerald, the conductor, who asked him what was the matter. He
said Pierce told him that crowd was going to the legislature, "but," says
he, as he picked some pieces of paper collar out of the back of his neck,
"if those people are not delegates to a Democratic convention, then I have
been peddling pop corn on this road ten years for nothing, and don't know
my business." Fitz told him they were patients going to the Insane Asylum.
The old man thought it over a moment, and then he picked up a coupling pin
and went looking for Pierce. He says he will kill him. Pierce has not been
out of the house since. This Pierce is the same man that lent us a runaway
horse once.
CATS ON THE FENCE.
Some idiot has invented a "cat teaser" to put on fences to keep cats from
sitting there and singing. It consists of a three-cornered piece of tin,
nailed on the top of the fence. We hope none of our friends will invest in
the patent, for statistics show that while cats very often sit on fences
to meditate, yet when they get it all mediated and get ready to sing a
duet, they get down off the fence and get under a currant bush. We
challenge any cat scientist to disprove the assertion.
HOW SHARPER THAN A HOUND'S TOOTH.
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