Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1915 — Sporting Proposition. [ARTICLE]

Sporting Proposition.

A teacher in one of Philadelphia’s public schools made arrangements last summer to take a couple of her boy pupils each week to the large farm of a relative in Chester county. The boys were required to get up at an early hour and help with the lighter duties about the farm. On the first Sunday in September Danny Mullen, age eleven, arrived at the farm. On Monday morning before daybreak he was awakened by one of the farmhands. "What’s the idea of gettln’ up in the middle of the night?” said Danny. “Hurry up! 7 said the other. “lU show you how to milk cows.” Danny sat up with a puzzled expression on his face, gazed thoughtfully put Into the darkness, then asked, "Do you have to sneak up on gjQnir