A Blog of Bosh

Why Bobby didn’t get his rocking-horse.
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Peter Newell from Harper’s Round Table, vol. XVI, no. 789, 11 December 1894, 112.

A QUICK CURE
MOTHER. “Don’t you feel able to sit up today?”
BOY. “No, mama, I am so weak.”
MAMMA. “Well, let me see. I guess you will be able to go to school Monday. To-day is Saturday, and –”
BOY (Jumping out of bed). “Saturday! I thought it was Friday!”
Peter Newell from Harper’s Round Table, vol. XVI, no. [...]

An April Fool
“Well, I’m a bigger fool, my friends, than I had ever thought on;
I’ve gone an’ married me a wife, and find she’s stuffed with cotton!”
Peter Newell from Harper’s Round Table, vol. XVI, no. 805, 2 April 1895, 384.