Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1911 — A Better Runner. [ARTICLE]

A Better Runner.

Being pursued by a farmer and his three sons, after being caught in the chicken yard, a young colored person had just made up his mind that he was not eluding his followers as quickly as might be, when a long-eared jack rabbit jumped up from the roadside and started down the road ahead of him. The woaldbe chicken thief had run a few hundred feet further when the farmer ami his boyq/ were astonished to here the negro shoot, in a voice that quavered with fright though unrestrained: “Say, for de Lord sake, you rabbit, get out of de way and let some one run who can run.”— Argonaut.