Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 25, October, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy — John Shaqi
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 25, October, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and FilosophyVarious
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 25, October, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy
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American wit and humor -- Periodicals
Feast, and the girls feast with you;
Fast, and you fast uncheered.
For they like to dine and drink rare wine,
And to dance when the floor is cleared.
Flirt, and the girls flirt with you;
Don’t, and they count you slow.
For they play with you, so you must play, too
Or sit in the lonesome row.
Love, and the girlies love you;
Wed, and she is yours for life.
For she does not play in the cabaret,
The one that you make your wife.
* * * * *
We will now sing that new southern ballad of the darkies, entitled, “I’se
got the razor and you’se got the throat.”
* * * * *
Gone Are the Dog Daze
Squire Green, wealthy Minnesota farmer, had a pedigreed dog, Fido. He
read in the Weekly Argus where Professor Dumpey in Minneapolis could
operate on a dog and make him talk like a man for a three thousand dollar
fee.
The squire shook himself loose from the money and delegated his son,
Bycyrus, to take the money and Fido to the miracle professor. Arriving
in the city, Bycyrus parked Fido in the hotel and started out to spend
the three thousand berries. When he sobered up, he found himself without
railroad fare home, so he and Fido started to walk.
At the crossroads he killed Fido.
“Where’s the dog?” the Squire asked.
“Well,” replied Bycyrus, “It was this way: As I was walking home, Fido
looked up at me and said: ‘I wonder if your father still goes out with
the cook.’ So I killed poor Fido.”
“Bycyrus,” earnestly inquired the Squire, “are you sure that dog is dead?”
* * * * *
Wow, Zowie?
The colonel of a British regiment returned home in a very angry mood, and
when questioned by his wife as to the cause, replied: “Why, that Yankee
captain attached to us boasted in the mess today that he had kissed every
officer’s wife in the regiment but one.”
“My word,” replied his wife, “I wonder who she can be.”
_Our Movie Gossip_
Trust Hollywood to have the latest in fads, but as in lots of cases,
they are short lived. A few months ago Madam Edith Maida Lessing built
her temple in Glasswell Park, high above Hollywood, and said, “Here will
I commune with the eternal, here will I show the bungalow sweeties that
I am no piker.” So she gathered her subjects about her and taught them
that civil marriage is the bunk, ownership of land is terrible, churches,
penitentiaries are awful, divine marriage is the berries, barter and
exchange are the biscuits, free trade and religious transformation is the
hot dog.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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