Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1883 — A Boy of the Period. [ARTICLE]

A Boy of the Period.

A young Austin man recently married a rich widow, who died shortly after the ceremony and left a hereayed widower and a large amount of property. One day he was visiting at the house of a friend who had a family of four little boys, and the widower began quizzing them. “Well, George, what are you going to be when you grow up?” he inquired. “I guess I’ll be a poet,” answered the little fellow. “And what are you going to trv and do, Willie?” “I’m going to be an artist. ” “An artist, eh? And what do you think you will adopt as a profession, Eddie?” “Pa says he’s going to make a minister out of me. ” “That’s good, very good. Now. Frankie, let me hear what you intend to be?” “I’m going in soy money.” “Going into a money-making business. Well, what is it?” “I’m gomg to be a rich widower, I am. ” —Texas Siftings.