Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1884 — Humanitarian Fudge. [ARTICLE]

Humanitarian Fudge.

A good old man, being down town one evening, was invited to join the Humanitarian Fudgers. He was delighted. and lie joined. Next day, while iu his garden, he discovered a boy in his apple-tree. Hero was an opportunity for showing his neighbors howimportant a thing is humanitarian fudge. “See,” he says. "hOw readily I shall subdue this wicked boy with humanity!” So his neighbors all gathered at the fence, and looked ■through the crack. “My good boy!" cried the good old man. “if you will come down f join that tree I ll Brive you a great big piece of cake!” “Cheese' it, cully! Whattcr yu givin’ me?” returned the boy, who always used good language, because his parents were both rospec bridle. The neighbors behind the fence tittered. “Come, now, Von know how wicked it is to steal! I shall have to tell your father if your don't get down!” “He'll call you a liar, old chap, if you do. You’d Better go in the house.” The neiglibors tittered again. The good old man began to lose his temper. “Really, boy, I shall have to throw something at you if you don’t come down!" “Throw and be domed! you old fool! I ain't us reared o' yu!" retorted the boy. snatching another apple. “Haw. liaw now shouted the neighbors. Here the good old man, quite angry, grasped a handful of grass and hurled it at the boy. “Haw, haw! hee, haw!" .veiled tin* asinine neighbors. “Fire away, old Stick-in-the-mud!” cried the boy. The old man was red-hot, and some of the neighbors had nearly split, themselves. “You young scoundrel!" he shouted, seizing a big stick of hickory stove wood, “if you don't come down this inatftitt Piltinstyoiiy you infernal fifth?--beast!" And without giving the boy a ehaueo to reply, the good old man sent the cudgel flying. It grazed the urchins oar. He dnqqted his apple, as the good old man reached for another club, the young rascal howled: “Oh, Tandy, mister, if you'll only Jet mo come down. Fll pay for these apples, I will—Qh, Lordy!" Down lie came, and the neighbors, by instantly leaping the fence, prevented the good old man from killing the child on the spot The .good old man doesn't go down town any more. —Louisville Courier Journal. *