Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1881 — He Got Hold of Them. [ARTICLE]

He Got Hold of Them.

He had never eaten a Malaga grape, and he squeezed ths outside of one between his thumb and finger, expecting the pulp to fly into his open mouth like any decent sort of grape. The tough skin held, and looking at it dubiously he tossed it away and tried another one. This ons crushed in his fingers, the juice flying all over his thirty-seven-cent necktie. With a look of unutterable disgust hs appealed to a street gomin: “Here, bub, I thought green grapes wuz gone by, but I’m durned if they ain't selling ’em yet. I’ll give you ten cents if you’ll eat these durn things. ” And the boy sat on a! dry goods box, swung his feet, wagged; his jaws, licked his chops and earned the money, the rustic occasionally exclaiming between his fits of uncontrollable laughter: “Eats ’em skins an’ all, durned if he don’t 1 Skins an’ all, like a cow chewin’ a pumkin”—New Haven Register. A political speaker mentioned somebody as a Shylock, and an auditor asked who Shy lock was. “If you don’t know,” the orator scornfully replied, “you’d better go home and read your Bible.”