Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1913 — Acme of Laziness. [ARTICLE]

Acme of Laziness.

“What in Sam Hill is that dog yowling like that for?’ asked a cavalryman of a “hill-billy” in the Ozark country. “That there dawg?” “Yes.” “Why, he’s jes’ natchally lazy.? “What’s that got to do with his yowling?” “Why, the train ran over his tall and cut it off last night. He’s settln’ on the sore place, and he’s too dawggone lazy to get off’n it. That’s why he is howlin’.” And the squirt of tobacco juice he shot killed a fly in the road 20 feet away.