Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1918 — His Portion. [ARTICLE]

His Portion.

i They went their way through wooded lanes, 'er fields and grassy mead, nor thought of wealth or wide domans, of danger took no heed. They talked of love that song divine; they breathed the Eden ate i “Were the whole world of beauty mine, naught could tp thee compare!” They talked of days of joy and bliss; her eyes shone like the sun. Smiling, she met his first fond kiss, nor loathed what she had won. They sat them down on clover sweet; hlg arm around her crept. She started, and on nimble feet fled r hls embrace, and wept. The agony upon his face showed plainly love’s first test One bee had spurred her in the race, but he’d sat on the nest.—Tit-Bits.