Shingle Your Own House

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 19, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 12.

Shingle Your Own House.

SCENE, bar-room. TIME, midnight.

WIFE—"I wish that man would go home if he has got one to go to."

LANDLORD—"Hush! hush! he'll call for something directly. He's taking the shingles off his own house and putting them on ours." At this time he began to come to his right senses, and commenced rubbing his eyes, and stretching himself as if he had just awoke, saying, "I believe I will go."

"Don't be in a hurry, James," said the landlord. "Oh! yes, I must go," said James, and he started.

After an absence of some time, the landlord met and accosted him with: "Hello, Jim, why ain't you been down to see us?"

"Why, I had taken so many shingles off my house it began to leak, so I thought it time to stop the leak, and I have done it," said James.

Young man, whose house are you shingling.

—Sel.