Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1911 — A Taunt. [ARTICLE]

A Taunt.

“Well." said the visiting villager, “I’d hate to have it said of me that I lived in a town that was so wicked It had to put the lid on.” “Huh!” retorted the native of the rival village, drawing himself up with fine scorn. “Huh!” ’*’* “O, you can 'Huh' all you like, that's just how I feel.” “Well. I’d bate to live in a plac* that was so little and old and backnuraberish that it didn’t have anything to put the lid on,” stated the native of the rival village, sauntering off in the direction of the grocery, where a barrel of snappy hard cider had so far escaped the Ud.