Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1911 — Embryonic Ones. [ARTICLE]

Embryonic Ones.

They had been at school together, recounts Answers. They had fought both shoulder to shoulder and face to face. Now, after the passing of years, they met again. "How’s the world treated you?" asked the long, thin one. "Like a lord,’’ said the short, fat one. "Got my own business, wife and three youngsters, two thousand a year. And how afe you?” “How?” replied the thin man. "Oh, anyhow!" “Dear me! Sorry to hear it Let me think. You went on the stage, didn’t you?” “Yes. But I had to give it up." “Why was that?" asked the city man. "Oh, I thought it best,” said the other. "I had a few hints that I wasn’t quite suited to the profession.” “Oh, I see!” nodded his friend, knowingly. “The ‘little birds’ told you, eh?" ‘•Well, not exactly,” answered the ex-actor, with a painful smile. “But they would have been birds—if they had been allowed to batch." '