Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1881 — Try Again. [ARTICLE]

Try Again.

A druggist was sitting beside the base burner in his store, staring at the rows of bottles on the shelves and wondering why the people don’t take more medicine, when the door softly opened and an 8-year-old urchin dodged in. Walking up to the compounder of prescriptions, he said: «** “Mister, ain’t there some kind of stuff that you can rub on that’ll make a fellow’s skin as tough as an elephant’s?” The druggist looked the boy over and replied : “Yes; the oil of tannin will harden the skin, if that’s what yo,u mean.” “ That’s the trick I’m playin’ fur exactly. Gimme 10 cents’ worth. ” While putting it up the druggist asked : “ What do you want to harden your hands for? Going to the country to husk coru?” “Husk nothin’ an’ my han’s is as tuff as rawhide now. I’m just working up a little scheme to circumvent the old woman’s slipper. I tried a layer of did leather, but she tumbled to my little game at the first interview, an’ when I fell back on a folded newspaper she heard it cracking afore she got me on her knee, but, if this here stuff does its duty, I’ve got the bulge on her, right from the word go. How long does it take such ile as this to put on a pad thick enough to knock the fire out of an average spankin’ ? ” When the desired information was given him, he trotted off down the street, singing : “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.”— Morris Chronicle.