Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1920 — And Yet It Was Tough! [ARTICLE]

And Yet It Was Tough!

A woman famous locally for he« ducks sold one to Brown, her neighbor. But it proved particularly tough, and as Brown had paid a big price for the bird be called on the vender without delay. “What do you mean by Imposing such a duck upon me, one of your neighbors?” he Inquired. “Why, was there anything wrong with it?” “Wrong! It wasn’t good at all!" “Well, it onght to have been," re* plied the dame. “It won the first prize at all the poultry shows for 11 years in succession!”