Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1911 — Settled Them. [ARTICLE]

Settled Them.

"I’ve a sight o’ sons—thirteen altogether,” remarked a prosperous old farmer, “and all of *em*s done me credit save the three eldest, who sowed wild oats at a pretty rapid rate, and then came home and saddled my shoulders with the harvest. “Well, I own I Was, glad to see ’em back, and I feasted ’em, and petted ’em, and set 'em on their legs again, only to see ’em skedaddle off afresh when things had slowed down, with all the cash they could lay hands on. "That thereabouts sickened me,’so I called the rest of ’em together and said: “ "There’s ten of you left, and if any of you ’ud like to follow t’other three I won’t try td stop you. But, understand this, though there may be a few more prodigal sons, there’ll be no more fatted calves. I’ve killed the last of ’em!’ “And,” continued the old man, triumphantly, ‘Tve had trouble wl* none of ’em since!”