Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1919 — AS HE SAID, “SOME BUGI" [ARTICLE]

AS HE SAID, “SOME BUGI"

Indianapolis Man Toll* How Small Creature Led toeDlsoovery of Hidden Mountain Dow. “A funny thing happened to me the ether morning,” volunteered an East side man after he got firmly established on the rear of an incoming East Washington street car and had successfully filled and Mghted his pipe and had it going good. “What’s that, Bill; did you forget and go to church?" asked another passenger, who seemed to know the victim of the funny incident. “A bug caused it” continued Bill, ignoring the insinuation; “funniest lookin’ bug I ever saw. “I was lying on the bed reading some poetry, ‘The Death of the Flowers,’ you know how it goes, “The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year; of wailing winds and naked woods and meaaows brown and sere. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrub the jay and from the woodtop’ ” “Well, as I was saying,” continued Bill, "I was reading that sad poem— I’m doing a lot of that thing since the stfltfi went ’dry’—-when I saw this bug running" across a rug toward a clothes press in the corner of the room. It was the meanest lookin’ bug I ever saw, and it certainly was goin’ some. I jumped off the bed and made a dash for it, but it beat me and got into the closet. I didn’t want the bug crawling around over my bed in the night, so I dived right into the clothes press and threw out about three dozen different kinds of garments that had been tossed in there to get ’em out of the way. Then suddenly I saw the bug and back in the corner a quart of mountain dew both at the same time. Durned if I didn’t forget all about everything but that quart. It certainly was some find. I wonder when the wife hid It there.” “What became of the bug?” asked a young fellow who evidently was studying to be a lawyer. - ■ “That’s the funny part of it,” replied Bill. “’Course I never thought of the bug again until about an hour after that when I saw Mr. Bug clear on the other side of <the room beatin’ it to get under a dresser, I got him that time, and he sure was some bug.”—lndianapolis News.