Humorous.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3931, 4 August 1881, Page 2

Humorous.

SACCHARINE REVENGE

There are mean men in this world. Last year Mr Ragbag had a garden, and Mr Gallagher, his aext door neighbor, n39 hens. Result: Disgusting personalities, some hair pulled, an ear chawed, a tooth loosened, and all the hens shot. Along about November the two sort of made up; but this year when Ragbag began to make his garden, he notified Gallagher that if he kept hens they must be kept out of his garden or he'd 3hoot them. And Gallagher went and had a lot of hens stuffed by a taxidermist and fixed so that the least puff of wind, would move their heads. And he gets up early and puts those hens out in his yard, and when Ragbag gets up and sees them out then-, liable to stray upon his garden, he gets his shot-gun and sits out there concealed behind a pile of pea brush, watching those hens nod their head and waiting for them to come into his garden so he can shoot them down. And he has neglected business for a w.eek on that account, and Gallagher has to stop, in his own business and roll upon the floor in an.agony of mirth, about once an hour, as he thinks of the ugly and sorrowful Ragbag waiting for those hen§ to come his way. Revenge is saccharine.

The "Locomotive" publishes engravings each issue showing how boilers look just after they, have exploded. This doesn't seem to hit the case at all. What is needed is a picture showing how a boiler looks just before it is going to explode. We could then learn when to get out of the way.