Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1920 — "Off Agin, On Agin" [ARTICLE]

"Off Agin, On Agin"

STRICKLAND W. GILLILAN

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PREPAREDNESS. little Willie Eezymarque’z parents said to him: • “Don’t you go to scrapping now with *Hphalet and Jim! Tell them that your pa and ma won’t let you fight a lick— Don’t you dare resist 'em It they hit you with a brick!" little Willie Eezymarque gumshoed down the street, Telling every kid he met what his parents sweet Had Impressed upon his. mind—all the kid* got next— Licked poor Willie black and blue! Willie’s folks were vexed. little Tommy Foxyguy’s people told him: “Kid, ~ * Dent you go to fighting now—scars cannot be hid! If those bad boys tackle you, turn the .other cheek. Let ’em know your parents* wish Is you should be meek.” Z' L ■ . .... - * Little Tommy Foxy guy, quite too smart for that, » O’er one eye in hostile style set his bat. Kept his fists clenched as he went ’mid . the hoi polloi— Tough kids said: "Look out tor him—he’s no sissy-boy!’’ Little Tommy Foxy guy mixed in fewer scraps Than little WlUle Eezymarque, with the roughneck chaps! Lesson of this Jingle Is: "If we’d not be scared, Better keep the fighting oft by showing we’re prepared.” * * * Earthquake Prices. t . LOTS FOR SALE.—Two good residence lota near the park In Wakonda at prices that will move them.— Wakonda (8. D.) Monitor. . - , : * ,* * - ALL HE WAS FIT FOR. There was once a lazy young gopher Who was an Incorrigible lopher. Bald his mother: “My child. You’re driving me wlldl Go hire out somewhere sS a shopper! .see Explained. % “Paw, why do yon call the doctor that brings the baby a stork?” "Because, my son, of the slie at his bill.” , -