Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1888 — Absolutely Unique. [ARTICLE]

Absolutely Unique.

“Hear me one moment, madam!”' suid tlie peddler at the front eloor. “I have not been rendered incapable of active exertion by any sort of sad accident; I have not been laid up six months with inflammatory rheuma ism;: I have not lost my situation on account of my religions principles; I am not a poor man, but am doing pretty well in my line of business: I have not a wife and three children elependent upon me lor support, for I am a contented bachelor, happy in the possession of no living relative's; lam not studying f>r the ministry; your next door neighbor did not mention your name to me; I never ” “Step in,” interrupted the weary woman with a deep sigh of relief: “I have been xvaiting for you for the last ten years. Step in—l don’t care what you’re selling, whether it's horn combs or clothes-wringers, I’ll buy. And if you'd like a cup of coffee or a glass of good hard cider, just say so. Step in —don’t bother to wipe your feet!”— Puck.