Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1917 — Bound to Fight, Anyhow. [ARTICLE]

Bound to Fight, Anyhow.

Early last year, says a contributor to an English weekly, a grocer in a Scottish village decided that either he or his assistant must enlist. As he w,is single and his mother and sisters were well provided for from their Im terest in the shop, he thought it was -ins duty to go. ; Mackay, the assistant;- agreed promptly, apd presently found himself in command of the business. But a few mouths later the master was dumfounded to meet his late assistant, attired in khaki, “somewhere in France.” “Hi, mon,” he said angrily, "what are ye doin’ here? Did I no tell ye taestay at hame in chairge o’ ma shop?” “So 1 thocht at the time, maister," replied Mackay, “bit I sune fun’ oot it wisna only the shop I was in chairge o’, but a’ yer womanfolk.‘Man,’ says I tae maself, ‘gin ye’ve got to fecht, gang and fecht someone ye can hit!’ So I jined.”—Youth’s Companion?