Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — Persecuted His Barber. [ARTICLE]

Persecuted His Barber.

“Hum?” said the irritated barber. “It’s easy enough to kick. Didn’t I slice all the hair off your face? What more do you expect for fifteen cents?” “The stubble has been removed,” remonstrated the customer, “but with it a large amqunt of my cuticle.” “Well, what of it?” demanded the barber. “Didn't I dab alum on that gash in your ear?” “You did,” the exacting customer confessed, “but you cut the tip off my nose.”. “And I pasted it on with court plaster.” “True enough, but you severed one oi my eye-brows and lost it on the floor.” “I kept the razor out of your eye, didn’t I?” “You did.” “And only gashed your neck in four planes?” “Quite right.” “I am afraid you’re a kicker. My advice to you is to grow a beard or buy a safety razor, and not come around insulting union barbers. You’re one oi those fellows that want a dollar’s worth of surgery with each shave and then kick because you weren’t chloro formed.”