Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1915 — The Irate Farmer [ARTICLE]

The Irate Farmer

A man riding a wheel along a coun try road In late October dismounted, climbed a fence and picked up an apple from the ground. He stood eating It when a farmer came along. “Say, what’re yon doin’ there?" the latter asked. The man alarmed for the moment, apologized, and said he had picked the up from the ground. “Waal,” half snorted the fanner coming closer to the man, “don’t yoq go doin’ anything like that ag’in. Und’stand?” “All right, sir,” said the man. “But I thought It would be all right because I found the apple on the ground.” "Waal, that’s jiat It,” cried the farm er. “Them apples on the ground is fur my hogs. If you want one, you pick it off the tree.”