Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1895 — Too High to Jump It. [ARTICLE]

Too High to Jump It.

He had been telling what a tremendously hig 1 price he had been charged at tho summer hotel wheie.he had spent several weeks, and how it had swamped him to pay it. ' What did you pay it for?” inquired a sympathizing friend. “Couldn’t help myself.” “Why d dn't. you jump it?” “Jump nothing, was the scornful re ply. “You couldn’t have got ove that bill with anything less than a 4 .-hor.-.e power balloon.”