Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1914 — Descriptive. [ARTICLE]

Descriptive.

“The last man that came by askin’ for work,” said the farmer, “was one o’ them writin’-chaps.” . “Did he say he was?” “He didn’t need to; J knowed it .without tellin’. fer he looked' as lonesome as a sheddin’ owl settin’ on a graveyard gate post, an’ as hungry as a possum up a ’Simmon tree that had Jest ben hit by lightnin’!”