Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1888 — The Small Boy’s Revenge. [ARTICLE]

The Small Boy’s Revenge.

Arthur, who is forbidden to speak at the table, had his revenge the other day. As dinner began he was uneasy, but finally •aid: "Ma, can’t I speak just one word?” "You know the rule, Arthur.” "Not one word?” "No, Arthur, not until your father finishes the paper.” Arther subsided until the paper was finished, when he was asked what he wished to s-<y. “Oh nothing-, onlv Nora put the custards outside the window to cool, and the cat has been eating them ud.” - ■ i 'Yurcn Doom*- was written fa derision of the appearance of the Contbratal troops who joined Bsaddook to beat the French in 1758. Dr. lUob> ■rd Bhnddfag wrote ft as a parody an a song rang in England as a caricature of Cromwell. But ft tailed in its pw a nation of whistling boys oa» Cleveland, Thurman & Refor ui