Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — Too Old. [ARTICLE]

Too Old.

Mr. and Mrs. Jones were starting for church. “Wait, dear,” said the lady, “I’ve forgotten something; won’t you be good, now, and go upstairs and get my goats off the bureau?” “Your goats!” replied Jones; “what new-fangled thingjs that?” “I’ll snow you, remarked the wife, as she sailed up the stairs, and down again with a pair of kids on her hands. “There they are,” said she. “Why, I call those things kids,” said the surprised husband. “Oh, do you F* snapped the wife. “Well, so did I once, but they are so old now I’m ashamed to call them anything but goats,” Then they went to church. The next day Jones’ wife had half a dozen pairs of new gloves in a handsome lacquered box of the latest design.