“Not going hunting? Then what were you doing with the dog and the gun?”

“Going down to the river to shoot the dog.”

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Too many women look upon a marriage certificate as a license to operate a holdup game.

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Pickled Puppies

A lady entering a crowded train, requested a little boy if she might put his basket, which he had beside him, up in the rack so that she might sit there. He assented willingly.

A short time later the lady remarked, “Sonny, I’m afraid your pickles are leaking.”

Little boy, disgustedly, “Them ain’t pickles, lady, them’s puppies.”