Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1917 — Youngster Lacked Humor. [ARTICLE]

Youngster Lacked Humor.

A pig In a crate is novel enough to capture city attention any day in the year. The crate stood on a pavement In front of an express office, and the black-and-white spotted porker, - with Its qulvery nose and cup-handled tall, accepted his prison bars with thq philosophy of a race that spends most of Its years doing time in a pen. ’ Naturally, passing people gave fibs show a word or giggle of comment, and one ragtag boy shrilled out to any one who would listens “Ketch on to de c’nary in de eager “That isn’t a canary bird. It’s a pig.” The entirely correct diagnosis was voiced by a little chap whose neatness showed for a mother’s tenderest care. He couldn’t take a Joke, but it was equally obvious that never, never would he take, say, a pocketbook that didn’t belong to him. But the look of pitying scorn on the ragtag’s face and his whoop of derision brought a round of guffaws that would have done credit to a ChapOn film. —Washington Star.