Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1917 — Not Such a Foot! [ARTICLE]

Not Such a Foot!

These is an amusing little story about Sir Eric Geddes as a boy which shows the new first lord of- the afkmiralty possessed of resourcefulness'at an early age. He was somewhere about ten when, on being given $2.50 by his father as pocket money, he forthwith went and spent it all on a second or third band bone-shaker. This earned him a severe reprimand from his parent for reckless extravagance, but the culprit rose to the occasion. Going out the next day he returned, having sold the bone-shaker for $lO.