People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — He Had Seen the Scarecrow. [ARTICLE]

He Had Seen the Scarecrow.

One Somerville young man, who has just been spending a fortnight in the country, lost all chance of making a favorable impression on the farmer’s pretty daughter the very first day he came. Her father came by the front of the house where the young man was trying to make himself agreeable, and the girl introduced him, saying: “This is my father, Mr. Smythe.” “Ob, yes,” responded the young man, turning toward the old man, and slowly holding out his hand, “i saw you standing over in the cornfield a little while ago, when I came up the road.”—Somerville Journal Mr. Chimpanzee—“ That ostrich eats enough for two birds. What do you suppose makes him so greedy, Mrs.C.?” Mrs. Chimpanzee—“ 4 heard the keeper say he swallowed a pair of strong eyeglasses yesterday and they magnify his appetite.”—Vogue. —“Do you go to school, Tommy?* “Yes’m.” “Doesyour teacher like you Tommy?” “You bet she does. Every evening most she hates to have me leave and keeps me «#n.”—Arkansaw Traveler* —“I met Jack Stageloon last evening. He tells me he is going out with a company next season which will produce * 'Fireman Fred.’ ” “Indeed; what doer be play?” “The boaa” Brooklyn Eagle