Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1919 — A SCHOOLBOY’S COMPOSITION [ARTICLE]

A SCHOOLBOY’S COMPOSITION

Wunst ther was a vary purty girl that had a vary ardunt lover that bit one of her ears off’n her head an she got mad with him an quit sos she could think of some way to hide the hole where the ear was onct, finely she tho about windin’ a roll of her own hare round the hole where her ear was onct an then to make bleve she made a nother roll of her own hare round the ear that was there and then she never went with that same feller agin cause he knowed it but she started a stile of hare dress an didn’t no it for evry girl in town with big ears like oyster shells, an some with lopped and crooked ones an some that looked like a big fat warty todes begin wearin’ their hare just like the girl with one ar offn her head sos folks couldn’t notice it but I betcha thayll all be ole mades onless they show ther ears cause no body would mary a one eard girl fer how’d she look when she got old and bawld?