Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1912 — OFF THE TRACK. [ARTICLE]

OFF THE TRACK.

To add to Bunkerton’s discomfiture) in losing his way, he has now been brought to a standstill by the absoluate impassability of’ the highway,! and his temper, already sorely tried, finally gave way. “What kind of people are you up. here in this rotten old state?” he cried; addressing an old countryman who stood close by, Inspecting his: stranded car with curious eyes. “I dunno,” said the old man. "Baout the same ez most folks, li cal’late.” "Do you call this blankety blank scar on the face of nature a road?"! roared Bunkerton. “Not ez I knows on,” returned th®: old man. “This here hain’t the pike;. it T s Mose Whibley’s traout stream run ; dry. I wondered what ye was drlvin” up it for.” —Harper’s Weekly.