Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1889 — Just a Fit. [ARTICLE]

Just a Fit.

If a boy sees a coat that fits him, he sometimes puts it on before he knows it: or we may say in other words, — **a guilty conscience needs no accuser.” Two school-boys had quarreled and finally had'eugaged’in a real stand-up fight. The teacher got wind of the affair and called the combatants before him. “He struck me,” said one of the boys, ‘ 'He said I stole his knife, ” said the other. “I said somebody stole it,” said the first boy, “Well you meant me,” replied the other, “Why Charlie,” said the teacher, “If Willie had told me that somebody had stolen his knife, it would not have made me angry. I should not have thoughV*that he meant me.” “Well, but you don’t steal,” was the readv answer