Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1900 — A Sherlock Holmes. [ARTICLE]

A Sherlock Holmes.

“Now, Willie, dear,” asked bis mother, “why did you not come when I called you the first time?” “Because I did not hear you till you called the third time,” said little Willie. The heart of the mother was pained at this evidence of depravity. For how, she reasoned, could he have distinguished the third call without hearing the second? “I know it was the third time, mamma,” little Willie hastened to explain, “ ’cause you sounded so mad.” She clasped him to her bosom. A boy who could bolster up a poor story with abetter one was not doomed to remain in obscurity.—lndianapolis Press.