Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1912 — QUICK CHANGES. [ARTICLE]

QUICK CHANGES.

He was a bumptious fop, and in the exuberance of his verbosity was commenting to the villagers on the wonderful change everything in Nature is subject to. To appear humorous he stood on a country yokel’s toes, and, as the latter hopped across the grassy sward for a yard or two, the fop remarked with a leer: “There now! You see, that changes you into a grasshopper.’’ Quick as lightning the bumpkin, sprang toward the fop, planted a big, heavy, dirty fist on his clean shirtfront, and, as he sent him flying into a heap of growing nettles on his back, he chuckled gleefully: ■ “Aye, an* that makes thee into a dandelion.**