Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1919 — AIMING ABOUT LONG ENOUGH [ARTICLE]

AIMING ABOUT LONG ENOUGH

Old Gentleman Evidently Though Prospective Son-In-Law Be Getting Ready to Fire. -John Bewlns was the most bashful lad in a Wessex village. For three years he had been keeping company with Lottie Reed, but he could not bring his courage up to the popping point. On Suhday night as he was leaving the garden gate of his inamoratfi, he encountered the old man, who had begun to chafe under the diffidence of his daughter’s sweetheart. “Look’ee here, John 1” exclaimed paterfamilias, “you have been coming to see my daughter for several years now, and I want to know what your intentions are?” t “W-w-well, s-s-slr," Stammered John, “I am aiming to-to her.” “Aiming?” snorted the old man. “Well, don’t you think it about time that you fired?” —London Tit-Bits.