Caricature; wit and humor of a nation in picture, song and story . THE HRST TASK. His reverence—Pat, Pat! youre making a mistakein teaching a child of such tender years to smoke the pipe. Pal— Make yure moind aisy, father. Tis not thatOi*m afther doin—Oim only weanin* th little divil frum^h bottle, do ye moind ? That Was Different. « riELLO! ** Well? Is this the gas company? Yes. My gas bill for last month is one dollar and fiftycents. Well? That is away off, and Just one moment, please. Well? In the first place, our men who read the meters arenot in the habit of making mistakes. But, you see,
Caricature; wit and humor of a nation in picture, song and story . THE HRST TASK. His reverence—Pat, Pat! youre making a mistakein teaching a child of such tender years to smoke the pipe. Pal— Make yure moind aisy, father. Tis not thatOi*m afther doin—Oim only weanin* th little divil frum^h bottle, do ye moind ? That Was Different. « riELLO! ** Well? Is this the gas company? Yes. My gas bill for last month is one dollar and fiftycents. Well? That is away off, and Just one moment, please. Well? In the first place, our men who read the meters arenot in the habit of making mistakes. But, you see, we • We employ capable fellows who know their busi-ness, and it is utterly impossible for a mistake to bemade. They turn in their figures after a careful ex-amination of the meter, and a most competent officeforce here does the rest. If you were charged one dollarand fifty cents for gas last month, you may be dead cer-tain that you burned exactly that much and no more. But I wanted to There is no use declaring your house has been closedand you have bee
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