Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1881 — Brotherly Love. [ARTICLE]

Brotherly Love.

Texas Siftings. “Where is your little brother Billy?’’ asked an Austin Sunday school teacher of little Johnny McSpiikins. VHe is home in bed. He is too sick to come, out and I am glad' of It,” responded Johnny. <••• “Wby do yon speak so unkindly of BUN?” ] J 1 ‘Because he played me a mean trick,” . “What was ft ?» T ’ ‘‘Billy told me that ma said the boy that .eat the most meat for dinner should have the biggest piece of watermelon:! beat Billy all to pieces eating meat. He didn’t hardly eat any meat, aud when the watermelon came on I —poohop—bad eaten so much -meat that 1 had no room foe tne melon, and Bitty,' who hadn’t'eaten any bar dig. hehriy the whole watermelon, and now he is sick,-and I’m so triad it ain’t me,” t 5 .