And yet we
may be wrong.
But what would it profit a burglar to gain the whole contents and wear out
his soles. If he got in that safe, he would find a package of bills that
we tried for a year to collect, and we would give him the bills if he
asked for them, and he could save his powder. He would find one bill of
sixteen dollars, with an indorsement that one dollar is paid,
after thirteen dollars worth of shoe leather had been worn out. And yet
the burglar would have a soft thing on cigars with that bill, for every
time he visited the doctor he would tell him when to come again, and give
him a cigar. Another thing the burglar would find would be a protested
draft from a great Philadelphia patent medicine advertiser. The burglar
could take a tie pass that is in the safe, and walk to Philadelphia, and
trade out the twenty-five dollar draft by taking buchu on account.
But no burglar that has any respect for himself, we feel sure, will ever
do us the injury to scrape the paint off of that safe.
A FASHION ITEM.
A fashion item says, "The drawers this year are made very short, and some
have lace ruffles." Some fashion reporter has evidently been looking over
our back fence at the clothes line. But they got awfully fooled. The
shortness of those drawers was caused by the flannel shrinking and the
"lace ruffles" the reporter noticed is where a calf chewed them when they
were hanging out to dry last fall on Black Hawk Island, when a gun kicked
us out of a boat.
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