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She was just a dry goods dealer's daughter, but she had her notions.
Whitehead: ''You make the fun- niest faces I haYe ever seen."
Wavland: "Sure look what I "'
have to start with."
at the School
"I'll take a hand in this," said :Mr. Mattfield as he dashed in Lav- inder's room and caught him play- ing Bridge.
1\Ir. Gannaw!!y (explaining prob- lem on the board) : "Everyone pay strict attention to the board and I'll
go through it again."
Elgin : "I like to strike matches."
Dunn : '"\Thy don't you pick on something your size?"
She: "I think you are wonder-
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attempts to break the temper of his sent the usual request and was more.
to die."
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relates his attempt to break the si- silent couple drove on, eemingly fo·r ~ lence of his wife, the high-headed an afternoon's outing. The colonel P~
daughter of Daniel Parker, by driY- soon left the driveway and headed d ing tranquilly into the Chesapeake for the Bay. At the margin he drew
Bay until the waters invaded the no rein, but continued on into the ~ compartment in which his wjfe sat. water. It was then that his wife ~
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Coleman: "So you think that Bowman is a lowbrow?"
Colo11el Custis is the san1e man who, having outliYecl three wives, had a tomb erected above his clay on 11·hich he sa.id that, though his age
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and amusing, if traditional accounts ance. The great beauty stepped mto ~ of his conjugal experiences may be the carriage, spoke no word to her ~ accepted. One aJlecdote pertaining
to the arrogaJ1t and an1orous colonel agreement of seven years before, aJld ~~
husband, in
She: "Idon'tcatertotheretail isparticularlyamusing,-thatwhich tookaproudandarrogantseat. The ~§
trade."
"The Campbells are coming," re- marked the boarder hopefully, as he waited for the soup.
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broke the silence of years aJ1d asked Cheer-leader: "Come on girls! some years been estranged and spoke him his destination, receiving his
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comforting reply, " T o hell, madam." dium of their negro slave, Pompey. The lady thereafter said nothing, ~~
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broken Saturday.
She: "Don't you ever speak of love?"
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lt had been the custom of the
colonel to ask for his coffee, eggs allCl bacon through the butler, and to get his replies by the same route. Too, he was accustomed to ask his wife,
carriage, admiring each other's cour- 913 Main Street age and wit.
Lynchburg, Va.
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Rev. Wm. G. Pendleton, D. D. Rector
The colonel and his wife had for to each other only through the me-
Founders. The s o I e motive
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Their silence the o n e toward the even when the water slowly entered other was the result of a violent the carriage. Surprised at her cool-
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Copeland: "I'll say he is·. He
even uses headache powders in his the prideful daughter of Daniel was sel'enty-one years, he had lived 209 Tenth Street
Lynchburg, Virginia
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:\Ioyler: "Xext time telephone."
Here lies the body of Bobbie Glass; He tried the gag: "We're out of
gas."
2nd. ·Ditto: "'Cause boiling water can't tur.n her white."
"TAMlNG OF THE SHREW" IS ENACTED BY VA. SQUIRE
This is a new Yer ion of the tam- ing of the shrew, the story of a blue- blooded Virginia gentleman who drove his coach-aJld-six into the wa- ters of the Chesapeake Bay in an ef- fort to break the silence of a sulking spouse.
Colouel John Custis, of Williams- •
burg and the Eastern Shore, whose self-authorized epitaph .declares that ' the only part of his· long lif~ worth living was the time he kept a bache·
lor's house between matrimonial ven- ture8, appears to haYe been unfortu- nat~ enough to marry women whMP temper~ were aR ungovernable as his
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but se1·en of them, which was the time he was a bachelor at his three times mistressless home, Arlington.
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tom to refuse the ride, sending him her reply by Pompey, who had borne
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