Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1913 — Fore-handed. [ARTICLE]

Fore-handed.

Little Katherine has been boarding on a farm last Summer, and many of the rural expressions are wholly unfamiliar to her. One day she chanced to hear her country hostess praising the good qualities of a certain thrifty neighbor. “He really ain’t got much, oompared to some folks,” said the farmer’s wife, “but be makes out wonderful well; he’s so fore-handed. That evening the man thus lauded happened to drop in, and Katherine Immediately sidled up to him, with ourious eyes. Slowly she revolved about the ehair in which he sat, and so persistently did she gase at him that the farmer's wife finally noticed it. “Well, Katherine,” she saM, “yon seem to find a good deal to look at in Mr. B.; don't you?” “Why,” replied the child, her lit-, tie forehead wrinkling In perplexity. “I did want to see his two uwor hands, but I oan’t. Is ho oittln’ oa ’em?”