Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1914 — GOOD JOKES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOOD JOKES

MORE REMARKABLE. Rose had called, on her afternoon out, to see her friend Arabella. Arabella’s mistress had just purchased a parrot and Rose was much interested in the bird. “Birds is shore sensible,’’ she observed; “yo’ kin learn them anything. I uster work fbr a lady that had a bird in a clock, ah’ when it was time to tell de time ob day it uster come out an* say cuckoo just as many times as de time was!” “Go along! Yo doan’ say so!” said Arabella, incredulously. “Shore thing!” replied Rose. “An* de mos* wonderful part, was dat it was only a wooden bird, too!” —Harper’s Magazine.