Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — Insect Intelligence. [ARTICLE]

Insect Intelligence.

“Files Is purty bad,” the iraan from Potato Creek is reported by the Indianapolis Journal ns bavin# said. “They ain’t nothin’ to what I seen ’em down In Nlggerauger,” said the man with the ginger beard. “Wire screens didn’t do no good at all.” “I’ve stood a heap of your lies,” said the grocer, walking up, “but when you tell me wire screens won’t keep out flies it is too dum much.” “Wire screens would keep out the pore demented things that tries to git a livin’ out of the stuff in this here sec-ond-hand green goods an’ codfish emporium, I don’t doubt,” said the man with the ginger beard, “but not the Nlggerauger flies. Wheii I put up my screens they seemed kinder puzzled an’ settled " “I wish some folks I, know would settle," said the grocer. “And settled on that there screen in clouds.” “An’ got so thick they plum broke the wires.” “No, they didn’t git so thick they broke the wires. They held some sort o’ convention, an’ had a lot of fly talk an’ purty soon they all flew away to the woods an’ come back with—what do you suppose they come back with?” “With a ax?” asked the man from Potato Creek. “No. They come back with a swarm of these here giant pincbin’ bugs that do abound in that country, an’ set them bugs to work an’ had them wires cut out’n the frames in less time than It would take ole Skinflint there to git his hand on the sale if ole blind Uncle Billy Boggs come in to git two pounds ot coffee.”