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THE BATTALION.
“Pa can you see further with a telescope than with
the naked eye?”
“Of course you can, Johnnie.”
“How can that be when it brings everything
nearer?”—Ex.
“How old are you Miss?”
“I have seen twenty summers.”
“How long have you been blind.”—Ex.
If a man is cowardly, he always quotes: “Discretion
is the better part of valor.”—Ex.
The bald headed man in his family pew,
Leaned back on the cushion and slumbered,
And he dreamed that the preacher these words
had proclaimed:
“The hairs of your head are all numbered.”
The bald headed man now awoke with a start
From his meekly devotional slumbers,
Then he sank to his knees and fervently prayed:
“Oh Lord! send me down the back numbers.”—Ex.
Again the Mt. St. Mary’s Record came among our
exchanges. It is an excellent journal, well gotten up,
and its editors deserve credit.