Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1882 — Frank Childhood. [ARTICLE]

Frank Childhood.

“Oh, say, ma!” exclaimed a bright sixTyear-old girl, while at dinner at a hrtel, “hasn’t that man over there gZ>t dreadful big ears!” “Hush, child; the gentleman might hear you,” cautioned her mother. “Well, I guess if he couldn’t hear me with those ears,” quickly chirped the youngster, “he had better haul ’em down.* ’