Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1883 — Respectable Hugs. [ARTICLE]

Respectable Hugs.

A man who was looking through a second-hand store in Brooklvn, with a view of finding a bedstead to suit him, finally examined one, and asked: “Are you sure there are no bugs in this?” , “Bugs ! Vhy dot pedstead was' oittttof my own family! We got it vhen my brudder Moses was here, und now he lias gone away I sell it for half-price. ” “Say, I believe it lias hail bugs in it.” “Ompossidle,. my frendt. My wife vhas so neat dot if she kne% of snch tings in der house she go grazy. ” “And L’ll be- hanged -ifjjj here isn’t proof!” exclaimed the customer, as he pointed to an unimpeachable evidence. “Vhell! vhell!” ~ The customer was going out with a heart-broken look on his face, when the other detained him, and said: “Dot’s all right after all. Es yon puy dot pedstead you know you have bugs.from a respectable family! Moses vhos kead-elerk in Rochester, und you know I vhas here twenty-seven years in peesness. —Wall Street News.