Baraboo Republic in Baraboo, Wisconsin

Quips and Quirks from a Whimsical Pageantry

A long OCR fragment delivers a collage of jokes and vignettes including wordplay on religion and candles, a pun about caterpillars and buckwheat cakes, a Philadelphia landlady’s pie lightness, a quip about mares and writing with teeth, and humorous exchanges in court and with a judge. The piece also references travelers, a Hibernian note, and a Rotterdam native tale, finishing with a landlord’s witty rent tale amid hard times.