Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1889 — He Spoke from Experience. [ARTICLE]

He Spoke from Experience.

“What are you doing here?” said a policeman to a suspicious-looking small boy in the Central Park yesterday morning. “Oh, nothin’; only waitin’ to hear mother tell pa what she thinks of him for not coinin’ home last night,” replied the boy, calmly. “Where do you live?” “Down there by the Grand Central Depot.” “Why, you are half a mile away.” “That’s all right,” said the boy, with a grin; “the farther you git away from mother when pap comes in like that the better it sounds. I bet the old man wishes to goodness gracious he was up here with his lovin’ son. and don’t you fergit it.” — New York Mercury.