Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1910 — SAID BY THE YOUNG BROTHER. [ARTICLE]

SAID BY THE YOUNG BROTHER.

Jamie Had Taken to Heart Story Told by Hia Elder a. Little Jamie was very sore that his beloved sister should neglect him for a young man, who held her hand for an hour at a time, while Jie himself was .banished to tie hall—whence, however, he watched through a crack! One evening at dinner Uncle Joe told a funny story. Here it is: “A workingman reproached his wife for letting her neighbor inconvenience her by borrowing her washtub when she (its owner) needed it herself. '

“ ‘I can’t help it,’ replied his spouse, ‘Mrs. Brown isn’t a woman you can say “no” to.’ t ; “ ‘l’ll say “no” to her,’ quoth the man, valiantly. "But when he saw Mrs. Brown’s sour face his heart sank. Still, his wife being behind him, he must show his manhood. So he stammered rapidly:

‘“We—we can’t lend you the loan of our washtub. In the first place, we haven’t got one. And the bottom of it is out, and we—we’re just going to use it ourselves.””

Jamie pondered, while the grownups laughed. Soon after came the ring at the doorbell he had grown to hate. He ran to meet the young man. Pushing his sister back, he cried: “You can’t see our Mary. In the first place she hasn’t been born —and she’s gone out —and —and —l’m holding her hand myself.”