Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1883 — “No, I Thank You.” [ARTICLE]

“No, I Thank You.”

Jennie Jones was a pretty little girl, and it was the only time she had ever been visiting by herself. She was spending the afternoon with one of her ’schoolmates, and, when it came tea time, Jennie was invited to stop to tea. “No.- I thank you, ma’am,” she said shyly. “I guess you better,” said her little friend’s mother, good Mrs. Morse; “sit right up to the table-—won’t you now?” Jennie fidgeted, twisted her apron, put her finger in her month, and finally electrified the company by remarking: “Well—l don’t know; -ma said I was to say, ‘No, thank you’ the first time I was asked, but—but—if you urged me, I could stay!” It is scarcely necessary to say she’stayed. He that calls a man ‘ungrateful sums up all the evil that a man can be guilty of.— Swift,