Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1901 — Pure Contrariness. [ARTICLE]

Pure Contrariness.

“I am looking at the last chapter of this novel to see how it ends, before I begin to read it.” ‘‘And *if it doesn’t end happily you won’t read It?” “On the contrary I won’t read it if it does end happily” “Why is that?” “I take a grim sort of satisfaction in imagining there are other persons, even in fiction, who are up against it as badly as I am.” Then the man with the boil on the back -of his neck grinned ferociously and began to read the book, which he had disoovp.red to be a trairedv.