Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1910 — A Heavy Stepper. [ARTICLE]

A Heavy Stepper.

You know how Emma Salter used to say she was a .mite deef, but when ihe was real deef Bhe’d buy her some kind of a contrivance so’s to make it easy for her friends,” said Mrs. Jennings to her daughter; and the young woman nodded, forbearing to remind her mother that her span of recollections was not precisely the duplicate of the old lady’s. ‘‘She’s never bought one, and she never will, now,” said Mrs, Jennings, whq had an exhausted air. I hollered at her all the way out to the Light, and all the way hack; and while we were visiting Mis’ Gorham the sunset gun sounded and made n great noise, t”’ “I thought sure she’d hear that, but I didn’t suspicion how she’d hear it till Bert Gorham come into the room a second after. ‘‘‘You’ve grown considerable heavler’n you were, Bert,’ Emma said to him. ‘I heard you coming up the ■talrs plain as day.’ ”