Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1887 — Ye Storie of Ye Dogge. [ARTICLE]

Ye Storie of Ye Dogge.

Once in ye very olden tyme a merchant sayd too an Eddy tor, “I doan’t thynke advertizing paves. ” “Let me show yov,’’ saidyeEddytor. “I will pvtte one lyne in my Papyr and not charge yov a pennie. ” “All right,” replyed ye Merchantt, “and we will see.” So ye Eddytor pvtte ys lyne in his Papyr: WANTED— A DOGGE. JOHN JONES, 253 Olde street. Now yt happened that 400 Peple eache brovghte a Dogge on ye next dave thereafter, so that Mister Jones (whych was ye Merchant t’s name) was overrunne with Dogges. “Synce there are so manye Dogges,” sayd he, “I thynke I myght make some bysiness, and will give you a pennie for eache Dogge,” Ye people took ye pennie each for his Dogge becavse there were so manye Dogges, and Mister Jones skynned ye 400 Dogges and made bootes and gloves from ye 400 hydes and thvs mayd A Byg Eobtvne, and thereafter added to yt by advertizin ye Eddy tor’s papyr.— American Grocer.