Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1883 — A New Industry. [ARTICLE]

A New Industry.

He was in attendance upon one of the numerous social gatherings for which Colonel Percy Yerger, and, in fact, the entire society of Austin, is famed, and he soon voted the whole -affair a sasiserabl e = fsifeFe-an'd" a bore. Casting about for some intellectual stimulant, he met a well-dressed man standing near the door, and immediately entered into a mild conversation. “This is a terrible bbre,” he said, “don’t you think so ?” ‘‘Well, yes,” answered the man, “’tis a. trifle dull; but I’ve done my best ,to cheer ’em up a little, and make ’em all comfortable. I’ve interviewed nearly every one of 'em.” “Let’s go out and take a drink ?” “Well, —er —you see, I can’t leave just now, not, anyway, until the affair breaks up.” “What’s the reason you can’t leave before the thing winds up; got a lady here ?” “No, I haven’t got any lady, but—er —you see I’m hired to entertain these people for the evening—and—and—those clothes I’ve got on belong to Col. Yerger, and I don’t think he has quite got enough confidence in me to leave the house with ’em. I see him looking down this way now. I’m a stranger in these parts. But I’ve got a chum down at the foot of the stairs. His clothes ain’t good enough to come up here ih, and I guess he’ll be only too glad to go out and take a drink with you.”— Texas S ift ings.