Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1891 — To Give Away. [ARTICLE]

To Give Away.

A,boy of five or six years, according to a story in the Chicago Herald, was made happy bv the arrival of a baby sister. He had been the only child in the family, and being a good and obedient bov, had been humored till he was perhaps in some danger of being spoiled. Before the little new sister was many weeks old. however, Master Fred began to feel that his own position was sadly altered. The stranger had supplanted him. Father, mother and servants were all the time talking about the baby. There was no mistake; Fred was no longer king. The boy began to be unhappy, and just then he remembered a placard which his father had put up at a conspicuous point on the premises some months before—“ Ashes to give away. Inquire within” Fred had taken great interest in this notice, and had inquired minutely into its meaning. He remembered now that very soon afterward a man called and carted away the ashes. He had been to the kindergarten, and could spell and print after *. fashion. So, w’ith such helps and hints as he was able to get slyly from the servants, he managed to concoct the following sign, which his astonished father one day found-posted in a sightly position, as he came home to dinner: “A Baßy tO give awaY. INquire oF FrED.” Potatoes were not planted iu New England fields'until 1718.