Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1915 — WHAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR [ARTICLE]

WHAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR

Dreary Bamuel In Earnest Effort to 80cure Employment, but Not, of Course, for Himself. "Well, what do you want?” said the master of the house sternly to Dreary Samuel, the tattered tramp, as he stood outside the door, shivering with the most accomplished art. “I’m looking for work,” replied he of the unemployed brigade. “Ain’t you got no scrubbin’ or washin’ or cleanin' or nothing that an honest body could do?” This earnest appeal for work made the householder think that he had misjudged a real, boneßt British laborer out of work. “Ah!” he said, "now you speak like a man. I like to hear of anyone willing to make an effort. I never thought you wanted work of that kind." “No more I do,” whined Samuel, shuddering at the bare idea. “It’s work for my wife that I’m a-lookin' for.” —London Answers.