Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1919 — Didn't Amount to Much Then. [ARTICLE]

Didn't Amount to Much Then.

Elman was boasting to his younger brother about how smart he was when he was a year old. “I could walk an’ run an' jump,” he bragged, “an’ sing’ a song.” “An* what was I doing then?” Inquired Willie. “Did I run an’ jump, too?” ■ . • “You eouldn’t do nothing,” was Elman’s crushing reply. “When I was a year old you was nowhere; you was just a speck of dust.”