Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1910 — Hardheaded. [ARTICLE]

Hardheaded.

Champion Jack Johnson, at Baron Winkin’s supper in his honor in New York, said of the Reno fight: “Jeffries is a gentleman and a square fighter, but he didn’t land a whack that hurt. I’m pretty nearly unhurtable, I guess. I’m like the bricklayer’s helper. 1 “A bricklayer, you- understand, once hired a new helper. This chap was renowned for his hard head. The bricklayer thought he would test him, so the first morning while the helper was filling his pipe at the bottom of the ladder the bricklayer up on the eighth floor flicked a b'it of motar down on his pate. *•• •” 0 “The helper never noticed it at all. “The bricklayer took a brick and dropped that down. Bang! It landed square on the helper’s skull. “The helper took his pipe out of his mouth and scowled up at the bricklayer. “ ‘Say,’ he growled, ’be careful where yer droppin’ that there mortar!’”