Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1912 — Too Many In the Party. [ARTICLE]

Too Many In the Party.

A certain knight of Spain, as high in birth as a king, as Catholic as the pope, and equal to Job in poverty, arriving one night at an inn in France, knocked a long time at the gate till he had alarmed the landlord. “Who is there?” said the host, looking out of the window. “Don Juan Pedro,” replied the Spaniard; “Hernandez, Rodriguez de Vlllanova, Count of Malafra, Knight Santiago and Alcantara.” “I am very sorry,” replied the landlord, shutting the window, “but I have not rooms enough in my house for an the. gentlemen you have mentioned.—Life.