Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1911 — A Qualification. [ARTICLE]

A Qualification.

Rastus was honest and industrious, but, in the opinion of the new minister, unsociable. "Neighborliness, my dear friend," said the dominie, “is brotherliness. Do you take the trouble to see much of your neighbors?” “Ah reckon ah sees as much of them as dey sees of me,” Rastus replied. “Perhaps,” said the clergyman, “but do you love your neighbors as yourself?" “Ah reckon ah does, pahson,” Rastus replied, “but you know, suh, I ain’t p*tic’larly stuck on mahself neither.”—Success.