t night."

"Yes, so they did."

"Which one of them got the worst of it?"

"Oh, there was no damage done. They made it all up, and nothing suffered
but their New Year Resolutions!"

In the Legislature.

"An' Oi say, Moike," said Patrick O'Ferrall, to his neighbor Mike
O'Neill, "Oi say, Moike, have ye heerd from yer bye Dennis lately who
wint out wist?"

"Thet Oi hev, Pat."

"An' how is the poor bye gettin' on?"

"The divil take it, Pat, thet's whut breaks his mither's heart
ontoirely. He wroites me thet he hez jest bin sintinced to the
Legislachoor fer two years!"

Life, and labor along its way,
Life, and a shade of sorrow;
But Love is there with her lips of song,
And the sun shines out tomorrow!

To live life happily, to work life earnestly, to leave life
fearlessly,--what greater success ever crowned with ivied laurels the
infinite brows of Adam's mortal sons?

On Behalf of the Minority.

Note--(The Oklahoma Legislature has a republican majority in both
houses, and the following is supposed to be uttered by one of the
democratic minority.)

To the Sleek and Fat Majority: We recognize your smoke,
And in meek and humble fashion we have passed beneath the yoke;
We've no foolish reservations: all the earth is yours to claim
With the grandeur of its glory and the fullness of its fame;
So accept our due submission; all we ask is that you give
Ample chance to filibuster and preserve the right to live!

In the manner that Respectable Minorities behave,
We shall justify the title while the heathen rage and rave;
And according as 'tis written we shall every one be good,
Though we smash the logs you're rolling into fancy kindling-wood,
While we stir the sleeping animals with long and lively prods
To the pleasure of the nations and the laughter of the gods!

And we pity you sincerely! You had quite a job at hand
To divide the loaves and fishes as the bosses made command!
Fifty places for five hundred hungry souls that wild cavort
Is a work requiring statesmen of the most exalted sort:
And we weep our tears of sorrow as we're looking on at you,
While you bump the heads of many and anoint the chosen few!

You shall pass appropriations, tossing out the toothsome "pork,"
In a way to please the faithful and to keep the "boys at work;"
And whatever seems the proper thing majorities should do,
Why, the oc