Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1910 — He Knew. [ARTICLE]

He Knew.

A small boy brought up by a fireeating father to hate anything connected with England or the English was consigned recently to eat dinner with the nurse wmle the family entertained a genuine English lord in the dining room. The grown-ups’ meal had come to that “twenty minutes past” stage where conversation halts directly, when a childish treble fell upon the dumb-waiter shaft from the kitchen. This is what the astonished nobleman heard: “Fe, fl. so, sum, “I smell the blood of an Englishmun.” —Wasp.