Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1909 — Luella's Christinas Gift. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Luella's Christinas Gift.

By ROBERT DONNELL

**WT was the funniest thing ever," I? said the bachelor boarder. ■ “You see. Miss Luella and I are going to be married, so J can tell it. Miss Luella took a sudden fancy to hang up her stocking Christmas eve. just for the fun of it. She bung it below the mantel, setting « mouse trap on the turned over edge

to hold it there. When she got up in the morning she ran to see If St. Nick had remembered her—and he had. “When she shrieked 1 grabbed one of my Indian exercise clubs, wrapped a quilt around me and rushed Into her room to kill the burly burglar. She was still shrieking. I looked under the bed. in the clothes closet, every-

where, but found no intruder. I found him Id the stocking. **T drowned him—-in the washbowl. Then I took advantage of the occasion <o tell Miss Luella that if oho actually, wanted a real live Christiana preaent she could have maSubscribe for The Democrat

“I FOUND NO INTRUDER.”

A REAL, LIVE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.