Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — They Had Met Before. [ARTICLE]

They Had Met Before.

When George Livingston Richards, the Boston publisher, started in business after leaving college, he was not so prosperous as he is now, and on more than one occasion he was forced to visit a pawn shop. From frequent visits to “Uncle’s," Richards became pretty well acquainted with the proprietor to whom he waa introduced by a mutual friend some years later, when fortune had Just begun to beam upon him. “It seems to me,” said the pawnbroker, with a twinkle in hig eye, “that we have met some place before.” Richards surveyed the other thoughtfully for some seconds and then replied: “Yes, come to think ofyt, I guess we havV) met before. But, strange to say, this la the first I knew that you were bowlegged.”