Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1907 — Good Excuse. [ARTICLE]

Good Excuse.

Storekeeper—By heck, Hiram, you put your shoes up against the redhot stove while you were asleep and now you have burned all the soles off! Hiram—Sakes alive, Jason! Couldn’t you smell the burning leather? Storekeeper—No. You sec a city drummer was in here smoking one of those furrln eigarettes.—Houston Poet.