Aladdin and the Boss Cockie (cover imaged--add text): (1920)

f^.
EXCURSIONS AND ALARUMS.
That boy o' mine, Jim---he's a silly inventor—talks
about a milkin' machine—the old hand style ain't
good enough for him_ All this invention is laziness.
Now edgercation—y' want a bit of, but not too
much. The Morcons, they went to big schools an'
colleges, and never come to no good—one's a book-
—
maker, and one's a J.P., an' one's a missionary
all turned out bad."
"I be sorry to hear such a thing."
"Puden's son goes to college to learn to be a
writer. What's he do? Writes another man's name
to a cheque and gets 20 years, or hanged, or some
The brother got edgercated out of the War -thin'.
Cry. Kep' his mind on 'eavenly fields and got
prickly pear all over his earthly paddocks. The
only real big edgercated man I know that ever did
any good was a parson first, but he married a good
woman, an' she converted him."
"Add what is he dow?"
"He's a money-lender. Well, now we'll just do
cogitatin' over this."
"Yes, twoo-heads are better thad wud."
'Not if you're caught with 'em playin' two-up.
Nov the Professor was strong on the rivers of Russia.
D 'ye know them ? "
"Every wud."
"'Ave y' got any readin' books
"Yes, here's wud, the Febale Idstrugtor."
"It looks old, ain't it?"
"By dear sir—by grandfather gave it to by bother
whed she was a girl. I have carried it -only for those
sagred 'associatiods."
"An' you'll teach her to read well out loud?"
" Ily dear sir, I will so teach her she will brig
tears to your eyes."
"Then teach her the other way—don't teach her
no electrocution, y' understand, plain readin' V"
"I do it backwards."
"But do y' know it frontwards, too—that's the
way it's got to look."
123