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Going the Rounds

  • Author: Unknown
  • Editor: B-7413
  • Newspaper: The Umpire volume 6
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  • Date: 1 24 1917
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  • ESP news

Going the Rounds Well, we are over a month past the shortest day in a year. *** Speaking of "leaks," Washington hasn't anything on this place. The smallest drop soon becomes a puddle. ยท ** It beats all what a lot of mental acumen is going to waste in prison. As soon as business men realize this there will be a great de--. Hush! here comes those highbrow kids. Nothin' doin'. * It is true that one may learn a little every day, but in many cases it would be as well to forget most we learn here. ** If the man who practices on a brass horn could only hear himself as others hear him perhaps he would go hang, Say, there is a lot of wise guys in here, for sure. ''Yes,'' as the sa 6e remarked, ''they put the I in prison.'' *** Have you ever noticed the average argument to be heard hereabout usually leads to what Tom said, that Jim said, that Jerry said he got it from Baron Munchausen? ** It is said to be noted that a restaurant at Eddystone has been broken into twelve times in the last eighteen months. No doubt this is rather aggravating-to the owner, but he should bear in mind that perhaps he is helping to fill a long felt want ot" the recently liberated. *** An inmate was heard to remark that he ''didn't mind doing another a good turn now and then, but it got his goat when he'd done several for a fellow, and then to have the shrimp ask half a pound for the slightest favor in return."