Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1883 — Yes, Sah! [ARTICLE]

Yes, Sah!

Yes, sah. We quite agree with you, sah, that there is a sort of delicious frankness, sah, about the following that will be appreciated beyond the bounds of West Virginia: Some five or six years ago a political party orator delivered an address for his party st Winfield, Putnam county, W. Wa. When in the zenith of his oration he was stopped by a powerful voice among the listeners. “Look here, sah. May I ask you a question?” -e— — , „ “Yes. sah; you may, sah.” _. “Well, sah, to know, sah, ii you as-e not the man, sah, that I had down bar in jail, sah, for hog-stealing, sah?” “Yea, sah, I am, sah,” came the response; “but I got clar, sah.”—Editor’s Drawer, in Harper’s Magazine. ’lt is said that dwarfs die of premature old age and giants of exhaustion,