Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1910 — Its Painful End. [ARTICLE]

Its Painful End.

The last of the Labrador ducks was about to die. “It Isn’t the thing of dying, in itself,” gasped the duck, "that grinds me! It's* the fact that while my race hereby becomes extinct, the gaunt, ungainly,, wofthless shitepoke will live on!” Uncheered even by the reflection that the carrion crow survived the dodo, the hapless biri breathed its last.