Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1916 — End of His Romance. [ARTICLE]

End of His Romance.

“I suppose,” said the angular spinster as she gave him a hunk of cold ham on a slice of bread, "that you never had a real romance?” “Dat’s where youse go lame, ma’atn,” replied the unlaundered hobo. **! wunst had u sweetheart wot wuz a dead ringer fer youse.” “And did she die?” asked the a. a. as she helped him to a piece of pie. “No, ma’am," answered the hobo la a sad tone. “When leap year come ’round she ask’d me ter marry her — an’ —an’ I runned away from me home.”