Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1901 — A Kiddle. [ARTICLE]

A Kiddle.

1 sent a note to pretty Prue And asked her to be mine. To be my sweetheart fond and true, Likewise uiy Valentine. And then I went to her her say The word I longed for, ••Yes;'* But first a riddle deep and hard She asked, and bade me guess Why that aforesaid note is like Policemen? 1 declare I'm never good at guessing, and It really wasn't fair. Then an Idea dawned on me, M.v anger knew no bound*: I thought her meaning surely was That it had "gone the rounds." But lest her tensing hurt me, She whispered, low and sweet, That close to her own loving heart She’d placed It "on a beat.”