Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1916 — Exceptional Day's Work. [ARTICLE]

Exceptional Day's Work.

There was a lull in the conversation of the little group gathered round ( the stove in the center grocery as Hank Parsons concluded his tale of the great results he had accomplished in fence building. It was clear thai. everyone was deeply impressed by the story, for silence is to the soap-box orator what appljpjse is to the politician. Then an old man, known as “Old Charlie,” broke the silence. “Wal, that thar was some fencin’— leastwise for these days,” he remarked. “But let me tell ye that If ye want to know anythin’ about f«*nee makin’, ye want to ask some of ua old fellers. Why. back in ’67, when mo and Bill Potter was a-workln’ fer the railroad, the boss sent us out one morning to build a four-board fence along both sides of the right-er-way» and, sir by quittin* time that Btgftt we had made so much fence that It took us three whole days to walk bade where we started from.” —Youth’s Companion.