Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1883 — THE CRUSHED TRAGEDIAN. [ARTICLE]

THE CRUSHED TRAGEDIAN.

“O/by the way, Tom,” said an Austin lady to her husband just after breakfast, “be sure and bring home that new silk dress I selected yesterday, crushed strawberry, you know.” “Hark ye, Maria,” replied the affectionate and melo-dramatic Thomas, “methinks I now canst trace a close analogy between crushed strawberry and crushed pocket-books. Take that small burden oil thy mind and muse awhile, my dear.” —Texas Siftings.