Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1917 — Not Answer He Expected. [ARTICLE]

Not Answer He Expected.

— A.- London stock broker bought a “place In the country,” where he liked to figure as the squire and local magistrate. In this capacity he dropped into the village school one day, and began to ask the children questions. “Now, what is an island?” he asked. T “There was no answer. “Come, now; could I ride on horseback from here to France?” “No, you couldn’t,” replied Tom Brown, son of the ostler at the village inn. “My father saw you on horseback yesterday, and he said he was sure you couldn’t ride half a mile without getting your neck broken.”—London Tit-Bits. 1