A Personal Insult
Young lady in Houston became engaged last summer to one of the famous shortstops of the Texas baseball league.
Last week he broke the engagement, and this is the reason why.
He had a birthday last Tuesday and she sent him a beautiful bound and edition of Coleridge’s famous poem, “The Ancient Mariner.”
The hero of the diamond opened the book with a puzzled look.
“What’s bloomin’ stuff about, anyways?” he said, and read:
It is the Ancient Mariner
And he stoppeth one of three—
The famous shortstop threw the book out the window, stuck out his chin and said:
“No Texas can gimme de face like dat. I swipes nine cutters outer ten dat comes in my garden, I do.”