Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1916 — He Sold. [ARTICLE]

He Sold.

He was trying to sell a dog, a bandylegged brute, with features calculated to stop a motor car, and the old lady did not seem averse to buying one. Their ideas as to the brute’s value scarcely corresponded, however, and there was little prospect of agreement, when suddenly the lady demanded: “Will he biter* 1“ “Only his meat, mum,” responded the fancier. ' “Oh, but I wanted one for tramps.” “Tramps is his meat, muni," was the artful reply, and there was a deal after all.