Amador Ledger-Dispatch, 12 January 1906 — Hot a Laughing Matter. [ARTICLE]

Hot a Laughing Matter.

A pompous, plethoric Englishman ■was ascending the front steps of one of our sky-scrapers, when a hustling. cowboy style of a young man, rushed past him, giving him a vigorous slap upon that part of his anatomy which ■a very tight pair of corduroy pants made especially conspicuous. Looking back, the young man, much to his embarrassment, perceived the Englishman was an entire stranger.

"J beg your pardon, my dear air," he said, "I thought you were Hawkins."

The 'Englishman straightened himself, and with a most disgusted expression cried out, "Who the 1 is 'Awkins? 'Awkins may like that sort of a thins hut Hi don't."