People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1893 — Quite Likely. [ARTICLE]

Quite Likely.

“Did I understand ye to read that there was up’ards o’ two hundred an’ forty thousand folks at that Chicago show in one day, Ezry?” inquired Uncle Tobias Slocum of his son. “Them was the Aggers!” responded Ezra, solemnly. “An’ there wa’n’t no crowd, even then?” asked Uncle Tobias, after a pause. “No crowd anywhere,” said Ezra. There was a long silence, broken only by the fluttering of the newspaper in Ezra’s hand, as the breeze blew in at the window. "Well,” said Uncle Tobias, at last, drawing a long breath, “I 'ain’t prepared to doubt the papers, an’ I know they’ve got a powerful lot of land set apart fer that show, but it does appear to me that if I’d ben on hand along with them two hundred and forty thousand folks, 1 sh’d have calculated that there’d be here an’ there a man!”— Youth’s Companion. “Wasn’t it awful about Helen swallowing her new engagement-ring?” “Ohl no. It wasn’t half so hard to swallow as the stories Tom told her about his wealth.”—lnter Ocean. “Mt hair,” murmured Van Arndt sadly, as he strove carefully to conceal the bald spot on his head, “remind* me of • fool and U* money.”—Puck.