Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1913 — Polite (?) Repartee. [ARTICLE]
Polite (?) Repartee.
"Why don’t you get your earn cropped?” twitted a big teamster to a little Irishman who was driving beef cattle to camp. "They are a precious sight too long for a nun." “Are they?" said Paddy, turning around and looking his assailant full in the face. "Then, be Jabers, yours are much too short for an ass.”
