Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1896 — A Teat of Honesty. [ARTICLE]

A Teat of Honesty.

The highly respected French simpleton, Monsieur Callno, discovered tho other day that he had left his umbrella somewhere. As he had vlsjted three stores, he knew It must be In one of them. So he started back and visited all three lu turn. “It has not been found here,” he was told lu the first store, and Monsbeur Callno shrugged his shoulders a little and went out. At the next store the same response was made. Monsieur Callno shrugged his shoulders still higher, and went to the third store. There the umbrella was waiting, and w r as promptly turned over to him. "Well,” he exclaimed with satisfaction, ”1 must soy that you are more honest than they are at those other stores!”