Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1917 — Greek Meets Greek. [ARTICLE]

Greek Meets Greek.

Some Shots were enjoying the fun of the fair. Seeing an old fiddler in the street, a few of them went over to him, and one, handing him two-pence, asked him to play the “Battle of Stirling Brig.” The old fiddler took the money and went rasping away the same as before. The audience getting tired of this, the spokesman again wqnt over to the fiddler and to him: “HI, man, that’s no’ the ‘Battle of Stirling Brig.’” “I ken,” replied the old fiddler, “that’s the skirmish before the bat tie.”