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SHREDS AND PATCHES
Loud Lovell's lame excuse
Lord Lovoll he stood at his own front door
beaking the hole for the key,
His hat was wrecked and his trousers bore
A rent across either knee.
When down came the [beaut..?] Lady Jane
In fair white draperoo.

"I'm not drunk, Lady Shane," he said:
"And so late it cannot be:
The clock struck one as I entered-
It must be the salmon on which T fed
Has been too many for me,"

"Go tell your tale, Lord LoveU," she said.
"To the [word] cavairee,
To your grandam of the hoary head-
To any one but me.
The door is not used to be opened
With a cigarette for a key,"

There is a great difference between a musket and a domestic. A musket never kicks until it goes off.
- Yonkors Statesman.

A young lady at a ball called her escort an Indian because he was "on her trail" all the time-
Hartford Sunday Journal.

Dialogue Between two Blind Sten - "Do you know the gentlemen who gave you the diem just now?" "Only by sight." - Paris Ganiois.

SHREDS AND PATCHES
Loud Lovell's lame excuse
Lord Lovoll he stood at his own front door
beaking the hole for the key,
His hat was wrecked and his trousers bore
A rent across either knee.
When down came the [beaut..?] Lady Jane
In fair white draperoo.

"I'm not drunk, Lady