Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1912 — Pennywise Peter. [ARTICLE]

Pennywise Peter.

Dr. Britton D. Evans, the brilliant alienist, said at a recent dinner in New York: “Then there is the cunning lunatic, of whom there used to exist a good example in Bridgetown. “There was a half-witted youth J® Bridgetown to whom the neighboring farmers liked to offer a penny and a nickel. “Gathered about him in a circle on market one day, the farmers, one alter another, would say: " 'Now whichTl ye have, Peter? Here’s a cent —here’s a nickel —take yer choice.’ -7 “ “And the foolish Peter invariably would ctoose the cent rather than the nickel, and the farmers before such incredible foolishness would roar with laughter, double in two, and slap their legs noisily with their brown hands. “ ‘Peter,’ I said one day to the lunatic, ‘why is it that you always take the cent instead of the nickel?’ "Peter grinned a very cunning grin. " 'Suppose I took the nickel,' said he, *would I ever get a chance to take another one?’ ” ' . Said she—Bid you leave your heart behind you at the seashore last summer? Said Ee—No. The only thing I left behind was my trunk. —Chicago News.