Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1918 — A New Excuse. [ARTICLE]

A New Excuse.

Jimmie had gone to bed ’way up the dark stairs and into his scary black bedroom. Shortly thereafter his mother heard him call In a frightened voice, “Ma, I wisht you’d come up here.” She went up. “Ma, won’t you keep the light hurtling in here? I—uh—it’s so dark I can’t see to sleep.”