Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — Large Family, [ARTICLE]

Large Family,

Patsy Dooley was a very, poor arithmetician, and was by a great many questions of numbers which did not -enter -otlier_peQjjle’s heads. , .. ~ ; > ' One day a new acquain’tdiico remarked in his presence: “I have eight brothers.” “Ye have eight brothers?” said Patsy. “Then I suppose every wan o’ them has eight brothers, too’” “Certainly.*’“Arrab, thin,” said Tatsy, “how many mothers had the sixty-.'our o* ye?”