Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — Retort Courteous. [ARTICLE]

Retort Courteous.

E. Pluribus Jones reached the station platform Just as the 5:15 was pulling out. A little burst of speed before the admiring onlookers netted him 50 feet in overcoming the train’s handicap, but the best that his ample carcass could do thereafter was to run a losing race. He quit at the end of the freight yards and returned. “Miss your train, sir?” inquired the porter cheerfully: Jones flecked a speck of dust from his coat sleeve. “No, my friend,” he said earnestly. “Oh, no. I was Just chasing it out of the yard. You oughtn’t to allow it around here. Don’t you see the tracks it left?”—New York Evening Post.