Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1913 — It Wouldn’t Buy the Shoes. [ARTICLE]

It Wouldn’t Buy the Shoes.

After Lee’s surrender, when Con-; federate money was "cheap,” a Confederate soldier was Journeying home through the mountains of Virginia on a mule. A “hillbilly” aceoeted him: “Thet’s a likely lookin’ critter ye air aridin’, stranger. I mought gl’ ye three thousiag dollars fufr him.” The soldier looked at him In amassment, and finally blurted out: “Three (housing nothin’. I jes’ paid 11’ thou-* sing ter hev ’lm shod.”