Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1918 — Slight Misunderstanding. [ARTICLE]

Slight Misunderstanding.

“As winter approaches,” said the presiding elder, “no doubt you are contemplating taking your family to town and getting them shod?’ “I hadn’t figgered on It” replied Gap' Johnson of. Rumpus Ridge, “but the way times is, it may come to that, all right. Still, I don’t see the necessity of taking ’em to town. It would be cheaper for me to shoot ’em myself. Tou’re at home, and —” “Shoot them? Mercy, Brother Johnson ! I said ‘shod,’ not ‘shot’ and —” “Aw!" —Kansas City Star.