Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1917 — Took It Literally. [ARTICLE]

Took It Literally.

A country hotel proprietor, glancing out of a rear window, saw his new waiter chasing a chicken about the yard. “What have you in that bowl?” demanded the hotel man, referring to a utensil he was hugging. “Mushrooms,” responded the new waiter. “There’s a gentleman that wants chicken smothered with mushrooms, and Fm trying to smother him, sir!”