Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1883 — “No, I Thank Yon.” [ARTICLE]

“No, I Thank Yon.”

Jennie Jones was a pretty little girl, and it was the only time she had ever been visiting by herself. She was spending the afternoon with one of her schoolmates, and, when it came tea time, Jennie was invited to stop to tea. “No, I thank you, ma’am,” she said shyly. “I guess you better.” said her little friend’s mother, good Mrs. Morse; “sit right up to the tkble—won’t you now?” Jennie fidgeted, twisted her apron, put her finger in her mouth, and finally electrified the company by remarking: “Well—l don’t know; ma said I was to say, ‘No, thank you’ the first time I was asked, but—but—if you urged me, I could stay!” It is scarcely necessary to say she stayed. He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the evil that a man can be guilty of.— Swift.