Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — A Natural Assumption. [ARTICLE]

A Natural Assumption.

He was a drummer of the more flashy type and had just finished telling a startling story to his newly made acquaintance in the parlor car. "That reminds me of one of Munchausen’s yarns,” remarked the victim, for want of something better b' say. 1 "Munchausen? Who is he?” “Why, don’t you know him? He is the most colossol example of mendacity that civilization has produced. A brief, painful silence ensued, which was broken by the traveler in a tone that was almost timid. "Excuse me, my friend,” he said, "if I seem inquisitive, but would you mind telling me what house he, travels for?”