Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — Good Reasoning. [ARTICLE]

Good Reasoning.

“Don’t you kinder hanker after respectability now an’ den?" asked Plodding Pete. “Oh, I dunno," answered Meandering Mike. “Sometimes I t'lnk dat respectability ain’ much more dan permission to work hard for what us people gits for nothin’."