Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1920 — LONG SINCE HE HEARD WORD [ARTICLE]

LONG SINCE HE HEARD WORD

Tramp Probably Would Have Needed Dictionary to Get Proper Definition of Morale. The tramp was a long, skinny Indivldual with a particularly villainous cast of countenance, and he wore a pair of trousers that had been designed for a man of at least three times his diameter. His rap on the farmhouse door brought out a sour, hard-faced puritanical woman who froze him with one glance and then proceeded to eye him up and down — especially down. “You needn’t ask me for anything," she said, harshly. "I can see that your morals are of the loosest kind and that you deserve nothing." “Well, mum,” replied the tramp, glancing down at his nether garments, “mebbe so, though I ain’t never heard ’em called that name before. Prob’ly me tailor ain’t jes’ up to date, but If you won’t give me somethin’ to help fill ’em out mebhe you’d spare me.a bit of rope to hold ’em up with."—Exchange.