Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1911 — HOW HE EARNED THE MONEY [ARTICLE]

HOW HE EARNED THE MONEY

Pretty Sister Persist* In Her Question* Ing Until Bhe Gets an Answer. i A certain pretty girl lias a small ’brother who Is, as small brothers are apt to be, the plague of her existence*, and over whom she attempts to maintain a rigid elder-sisterly discipline. Yesterday afternoon she saw him eating candy. "Why, Phil,” she said, "where did you get that candy?” “O, I bought it,” Philip replied, airily; and Philip’s sister, who knew the deplorable state of his finances, raised her eyebrows suspiciously. “Where,” she began, “where did you get the money?” ... ... Philip whistled, "I earned it,” he answered, with great assumption of dignity. i The big sister wondered for a moment, then laughed outright. "You never earned a cent in your life, Phil,” she exclaimed. "You’re too lazy for anything. Tell me,” very sternly, “where you got that money." “None o’ your business,” answered Philip, impudently* “you ain’t my mother. I tell you I earned it, I did. I earned this all right. I got it from your beau yesterday afternoon when I saw him kissing the baby's nurse. Well, what’s the matter? I guess I earned it all rights''