Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1881 — Consolation. [ARTICLE]

Consolation.

An honest shoemaker peering-ini o a restaurant, saw one of his fashion- , able customers seated at a table covered with all the delicacieaof the season, including a large bottle of green seal and two canvas-back dneks! clatmSf- iU ’ tradesman ex? “ You haven’t got money to pay me for the boots you have got on, but yea i W for aU maimer of delicacies.” The young man wiped his mustache, and looking arctand to see that he was* hot overheard, responded - in « whisper: »*. H M •‘Don’t be deceived by appearanceaJ You must notlose confidence in me. I donH expect to pay for this littie banquet any more than I expect to pay you for the boots.”