Humor. Mute Eloquence.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1935, 29 November 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Humor. Mute Eloquence.

I In a new book, " Bristling with Thorns " is the title, but it really bristles with epigrammatic sentences, we find this passage : ■ " Kate stood up. She must go out. " She searched for*her bonnet. " She found it. " She turned toward the door. " The door was open, and in the doorway stood a man. " It was the teamster. " Kate was startled, She nearly cried out in surprise. " The soldier raised his finger. " There is mute eloquence in a finger." Well, you can just bet there is mute eloquence in a finger. And sometimes" it is a great deal muter, and then again it isn't so awfully mute as it would be if it were more mute than it was. ; , When you shut a car door upon it. Ah! - Jee-wbiz 1 You epmprawney voo, do you not? - Wettfonght you would. How mute is the eloquence then 1 'iiet-ua T.'drawrthe veil over the dreadful ; scene. ,\ '-; %t_ - - -- _ 4 - _" '-, '/' Ox ; -wheri Jspu.^at6 sewuig. on l'% button, '' and y ram the needle clear; thrbagh the end ot

Not lost, but gone up your back. In feeling for it, you run a stray pin under „ your finger nail, about fourteen inches,*" apparently. '-- Help, oh Baal! < "\"- When ycu reach under a rocking-chair to •- pick up your pencil, and a fat man rocks back on youi fingers I Eheu ! hei ! \ aha ! Jimminy pelt J When you lift elf a red-hot lamp chimney with your bare hand. Murder I When you take/a base] ball (from the bat with the 6nd of it. Whoop 1 When it is hooked into your button-hole by the man who has a new plan for retiring the silver dollar, or has invented a safety car coupler. Oh, death ! These are -the timesjjwhen it is not so mutely mute p.s its intense mutability would seem to warrant. It is somewhat muter when the man from whom you are proposing to borrow $25 until next pay day, Blowly draws down the corner of his left eye with it, as though to invite you to prospect for indications of spring in the cornea " when the corneas waving, Annie dear." 0, sad muteness. When the friend to whom you are explaining the bonanza beauties of a little western [ land deal into which you can let him come, 1 gazes at you fixedly, and silently lays his eloquent fore finger alongside o his unflinching nose. 0, pitiful misoue 1 When the head waiter pins you with his distant finger and points you to the last table in the darkest corner of the long diningroom. 0, slow starvation ! When the man taps with his finger on the counter to indicate the place where the cash must repose ere he weigheth out the groceries. 0, eloquent brevity I When he, her father, stands at the parlor door and voicelessly points at the clock, and mayhap to the door. I3"l After all, it is a question if the mute eloquence of the unspoken finger be not the greater eloquence. In fact, it is.