Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1917 — A Hospitable “Cracker.” [ARTICLE]

A Hospitable “Cracker.”

A young lawyer down in Florida wa's running for a certain office and. with the idea of getting their vote, undertook to cultivate the acquaintance of all the “crackers” (country people) for miles around. . Stopping his horse one evening in front of a little shanty, he inquired of the*old man lounging against the door if he might spend the night at his home. “Sure, partner,” said the old man, “stop and light.” The lawyer “lighted” and followed him into his abode, which consisted of one room, with a bearskin stretched out in one corner, the trophy of a hunt and also the only bed of the hunter. A pumpkin served him for a pillow, tn answer to- the lawyer’s wondering look as to where he was going to sleep, the “cracker" pointed to the bbarsWn,saying with great magnanimity: “Stranger, I tell ye what we’ll do—ye take the punkin and the b’arskin, and I’ll rough it I” —Everybody's.