Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1912 — Again the Poor Fat Man. [ARTICLE]

Again the Poor Fat Man.

Among the passengers on a downtown car the other evening were a fat man, a lean man, who proved to be deaf, and a couple of giggly girls. On one of the side streets a German band was engaged in making life miserable for the residents of the neighborhood. The fat man shifted uneasily In his seat and remarked sarcastically to the lean man in a low tend, “Music!” The lean man put his hand to hie ear and said, “Eh?” , - “Music,” repeated tbe man in louder tones. ' “Beg pardon, I am not able to hear," said the lean man. “Music,” yelled the fat man, so loud that the passengers all tittered and the little giggly girls all grew red in the face. - / “Oh,” said the lean man as he turned around and looked about Mm. The little German band was out oi sight by this time, and the passengers laughed immoderately at the vain attempts of the unfortunate man to find the object of the fat man’s comments. Fat men are proverbially good natured, and by that time the oddity of the situation had dawned upon thia particular fat man. “Hum,” he said, “you folks needn’t laugh. Our friend saw. fully as much music as* you antTl heard.” —— 2