Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — The Finnerty’s on “Ivvolution.” [ARTICLE]

The Finnerty’s on “Ivvolution.”

"Did ye tver hear av involution?” •ays he. "For’t was a man named Darwin lnvinted it.” "What is ’t?" inquired Michael. "Well, ’t is like this," answered lfra. Finnerty. “T is that animals changes thimsilves, like, accordin’ to th’ neighborhood they’re in. But it takes a long time, an’ ye can’t see thfm do it; for nature is slow about makin’ thim over. ’T is like as if an elephant was to be moved to th’ north pole, where’t all snow an’ Ice. An’ maybe in a long time he w’u’d be gettln’ th’ likes av an ice pick on th’ lnd av his thrunk for to be burrowin’ in th’ loebergs an’ makin’ his way about.” “An’ ye ’re belavln" it?” remarked Michael. ‘"T it not that I w’u’d be belavln’ It. Bat Agnes says ’t is throe. ’T is a word in th’ bnkes, an’ ’t is like that." From Charles D. Stewart's “The Fugitive Blacksmith.”