The reading room
Daffydils #1
"Daffydils" is an anthology of comic stories and jokes featuring recurring characters including Officer Dust Off the Electric Chair and Quick Watson the Needle. Stories include Mabel being insulted at a party, a group of soldiers sorrowing with heads uncovered, Inspector Schlitz Berger discovering a bug in his office, a man asking about a farmer selling a lame cow to a sailor, Mme Paladinio's séance with spiritualists, McCabe being busy wheeling roses in a fiddler, Silly O'Loughlin announcing batteries for a big game with Old Robbie and Barker, a dramatic editors' story about Red Jerry the Compositor, Joe Fabian the Red Cabbage Stock comedian, a church minister interrupted by a bald-headed man, and various joke exchanges about dewdrops, Napoleon's soldiers, and why a barber killed his rooster.