Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1899 — HE TOOK PEARS. [ARTICLE]

HE TOOK PEARS.

The Company Might Have a Choice, bnt Hobby Hod None. “Will yoa have pears or green gages'!” asked the lady of the house at the party the other night. There was a large dish of pears and a very small dish of green gages, and the company conceived a diabolical plot. “Gages, please,” said the first; and from all the way down the table, “Gages,” please,” came back to the hostess. The smiles vanished from her face, even as the gages did from the dish. “I can recommend those pears.” she said, by-and-by; “I did them myself,” hat the demand from the foot was the same as at the top, “Gages, please.” At length: “My dear, pears or gages?” “My dear” had been chatting to his fair neighbor, and bad not noticed the tittle ware of disturbance. “Gages, please, dear,” he replies, without looking up. “Xo, my love, you’ll take pears,” came the words, smooth and sweet in their tone, but charged with the emphasis of pent-up wrath. Bo “my love” took the pears, and when he got upstairs that night learned what ■ brute he had been, and what a detestable, rude company be had entertataed that evening.