Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1911 — Note of Discouragement. [ARTICLE]

Note of Discouragement.

A Philadelphia lawyer who spends his summers in the Adirondacks tells an amusing story of a country bumpkin whose friend he was. The <wtntryman was courting a girl of the countryside, but he grew discouraged over the progress of his love affair. At times, when he was certain the girl loved him, he was gay to the point of being foolish. Then, again, when he thought he detected coolness, he was sad and dejected. He confided to the lawyer one day that he had balanced accounts, and was convinced the girl didn’t want him. "And she’s breaking it gently," he said. "She has such a delicate way of telling me, sir.” "How’s that?" asked the lawyer.' "O, she’s just delicate, that’s all,” was the explanation. “We wuz settin’ in the parlor las’ night, an’ I wuzn’t sayin’ much, an’ nuther wuz she, but she says, says she, ‘Albert, did ye know that I’s a twin an’ my sister’s a twin, an’ my mother and her sister wuz twins, an’ grandmother and her sister wuz twins, an’ their mother and her sister wuz twins?’-"—Philadelphia Times.