Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1911 — GATHERED SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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: Heartfelt Appreciation. W; T 4 tourist was being conveyed through a rough country by a driver who boasted of bls knowledge of all the roads, saying that he knew every stick and stone along the highway After they had passed over • smooth piece of road they began to go bumpty-bump for several miles Just as the buckboard came out of a hole abolt two feet deep the driver turned and said: “How do you Mkh riding on a buckboard?” At that instant the tourist happened to be about six feet in the air. and remarked: “1 wouldn’t miss ft for the world.” —Metropolitan Magazine.