Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1910 — A Rock for a Stone. [ARTICLE]

A Rock for a Stone.

“Quit that!" screams the wife of the man, when he begins rocking the boat. “I never thought I was married to a rock-the-boat-idiot.” “Yop’re not, Maria," explained the man, earnestly. “I’m simply paying • you in your own coin." “What do you mean?” “Didn’t you bake a cherry pie for me, and didn’t I break a tooth on a seed I found in it?” “Yes, but " “Well, if thereafter you’ll stone the cherries I’ll not rock the boat” But the wretched woman,, realizing that she was linked for life to a punster, began rocking the boat herself in desperation.