Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1910 — HE’D HAD SOME HARD KNOCKS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HE’D HAD SOME HARD KNOCKS.

"Fortilne at evfery man’s door." “Fortune is a knocker, all right" Foxy Hiram, “Well, now, if that ain’t surprising!” ejaculated Mrs. Ryetop, as she shaded her eyes with her hand. “There goes old Hiram Skinflint, and rather than step on a poor black ant he picked it up, and I bet he is going to drop it somewhere out of the reach of danger." Her husband laughed knowingly. • ’ Not Hiram Skinflint, Mandy. He’ll go down to Jed Weatherby’s general store and order a pound of granulated sugar. Then while Jed is looking another way he’ll drop the ant among the grains and tell Jed as long "as hia sugar has ants in it he ought to sell it at half price. Like as not he’ll try to get Jed to throw in two or three raisins and a yeast cake. You don’t know Hiram Skinflint." #