Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1919 — The Pleasures of Travel. [ARTICLE]

The Pleasures of Travel.

“Wa-al-p’tu—no,” said ' the ancient Arkansawyer, “I hain’t never did much of what you’d call traveling. I was 97 years old last grass ; born and raised right here in Shagbark township, and hain’t been outside of the county but once. That was wh’en I vtas about 30 years old. I went over to Torpldville, and they just nacher’ly took and started to lynch me the minute I got to town, for something or nuther, I never did find out what. One foot was already in the air and the other barely touching the ground when some feller came running and hollered that they were making a mistake —I wasn’t the guilty party a-tall. As soon as they turned me Dose I lit out for home as the crow flies, and I hain’t done no traveling to speak of since. I always flggered that on the next occasion the feller that knowed it was a mistake might not get there in'time to-do me any good.”-rJudge.