ILLUSTRATIONS.


[Gee, My Ideas of an Orphan Home Got a Shock.]

[The Way Freshmen Do in College When They’re Being Murdered.]

[Gosh, But I Never Had Such an Excursion.]

[Grabbed the Balloon Rope and Gave it a Hitch Around the Pole.]

[Any Man That Lays Hands on the Government Mail Can Be Imprisoned for Life for Treason.]

[Hit the Chief of Police With a Bottle.]

[They Pulled Me Through the Forty-Foot Gun to Swab it Out.]

[When it Exploded the Jap Was the Scaredest Person I Ever Saw.]

[The Boss of the Boat Ordered Me Pulled Out With a Boat Hook.]

[I Am Thy Father’s Ghost—Come on in, the Water’s Fine.]

[The Captain Got Upon a Chair and Pulled a Revolver and Was Going to Shoot.]

[I Gave Him a Squeeze That Sent a Shock Through Him That Loosened His Teeth.]

[Pa’s Face Was Scratched So They Sent Him to the Pest House.]

[After Pa Had Been Ducked in the Fountain They Charged for Two Ducks He Killed by Falling on Them.]

[The Fireworks Went Off. The Woman Threw a Fit and Pa Raised Out of the Smoke.]

[Up She Went With the Inventor Steering and Pa Hanging on for Dear Life.]

[Pa Gave a Honk Honk Like an Auto, But the Lion Wasn’t Frightened So You Would Notice.]

[When Pa Found the Snake Coiled Up on His Blanket He Threw a Fit.]

[Looking Him Square in the Face I began to Chant, Ene-Mene-Miny-Mo.]

[Pa Astride of a Zebra, Has Frightened the Elephants Into a Stampede by Playing “A Hot Time” on a Mouth Organ.]

[Pa Made a Lunge and Fell on Top of the Little Elephant, Which Began to Make a Noise Like a Baby.]

[“There’s Your Lions, About a Dozen, Captured Down in That Hole; Help Yourselves,” Said Pa.]

[“Get in There, You Measly Cur Dog,” Said Pa, Kicking the Big Lion at Every Jump.]

[Pa Stopped the Music and Repeated an Old Democratic Speech of His, and They Acted Just Like a Caucus.]

[All He Had to Do Was Play “Supper is Now Ready in the Dining Car.”]

[Some of Those Negroes are Running Yet, and Will, No Doubt, Come Out at Cairo, Egypt.]

[Pa Had to Put His Foot on Their Necks and Acknowledge Him Their King and Protector.]


Peck’s Bad Boy in an Airship.