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The American Joe Miller

by Robert Kempt

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Colt’s Arms Versus Colt’s Legs — 377

Colt’s arms are useful when you want to fight, but if you want to run away, colt’s legs are better.

Infantile Ideas of Distance — 378

A happy comment on the annihilation of time and space by locomotive agency was made by a little child who rode fifty miles in a railway train, and then took a coach to her uncle’s house, some five miles further, and was asked on her arrival if she came by the cars. “We came a little way in the cars, and all the rest of the way in a carriage.”

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