Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — Kissed by Henry Clay. [ARTICLE]
Kissed by Henry Clay.
There is left the little girl—now no longer a little girl—the proudest recoe lection of whose life is of the kisses Mr. Clay used to give her, and < for which) with commendable business exactness, he always paid her with, a ten-cent piece deposited in her sunbonnet. She-now confesses that when .site saw the statesman approaching she learned, to lay this bonnet on the table of her father’s shop, that it might be well evidence, and the Impressive ceremoajy of the dime and the salutation might not be omitted before the Whig leader, her father, and several other old cronies settled down for their regular afternoon discussion of national affairs—for all Kentuckians.an# politicians.— Century.
