Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1920 — MORE THAN HE COULD STAND [ARTICLE]

MORE THAN HE COULD STAND

- Happy Homeward-Bound Fisherman Felt Called On to Denounce Claim of Supposed Rival. He had fished all day and caught nothing, yet his heart was light and gay as he walked homeward. The bottle of “cold-defier” which he had taken out in the morning full now reposed—empty and dead —among the rushes by the river's brim.' As he wavered along the lane he sang happily, though quite out of tune, and the gray twilight was to him a rosy g’ow. But presently he stoppe<L,and looked with owl-like gravity over the hedge at a scarecrow which stood 4in the field, its 'farms outstretched. 4.nd the angler shook his head. “You’re a liar!’’ he said sternly. “There never wash and never hash been a fish caught as blg’sh that 1"