Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1911 — His Wit Failed. [ARTICLE]

His Wit Failed.

The house dated from the fifteenth century, and .visitors were permitted to go over It for sixpence a head. Of course Queen Elisabeth had slept there, and the boy in buttons who conducted the party mentioned this three times in the sacred bedchamber. Most of the furniture bad a„. look of the period, though there were a few doubtful embroideries. “And where," one of the visitors asked, “is the bed in which Queeen Elisabeth slept?" The boy in buttons hesitated for a moment, and then said, “That’s being made, sir.”