Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1919 — Promising Opening. [ARTICLE]

Promising Opening.

The traveling showman was waxing eloquent as he described the characteristics of his wild horse from Tartary. “Ladles and gents,” he said, “this hanimal Is a real terror. If there’s any gent in this comp’ny as fancies hisself as a rider, I’ll give him five pounds for every minute he sticks on this hoss. I’ve rid bosses all my life, but this hoss is beyond me. I’ve tried ’lm every way, but ’e shakes me off In ten seconds.” “Why not get Inside him?” queried a humorist. The showman waited until the laughter had died down. “My lad,” he said, witheringly, “I’ve thought of that. But nature has been unkind to ’lin in the matter of mouth; it ain’t big enough. Now, If It ’ad been yours—” But the humorist did not wait to hear the logical conclusion of the hypothesis.