Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1892 — FOURTH OF JULY FUN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOURTH OF JULY FUN.

-J - iIEN chubby fingers II j had that little sou j| of mine. Tjh ij He shot a fire-cracker *4O fl off and then there |L were but nine. * Then he tampered with a pistol,and he > Of® bad not long to wait Before the thing exyjl pleded and then he Ma 'SSL bad but eight. (1/ /5T Then he loaded up a !fKw\ cannon, for a ramMjgk WWy rod used his. finger, glrel w Of course but fingers »seven upon his ‘BzJfk hands did linger. Engaging in the prac-

tlclng of military tricks. He reduced his stock of feelers to the small amount of six. Continuing In the slaughter, so BjjJendld did he thrive That ’twas not long before he had but chubby fingers five. 'Then not content with what he’d done, he went on as before. And aided by a musket soon possessed but fingers four. But four was much too many, thought this youngster carefully, 60 he sent a rocket in the air, and then there were but three. But soon he counted only two, and later had but one. And then that left him—after all, my boy has had his fun. —Wild West