Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1884 — Bough on Poets. [ARTICLE]

Bough on Poets.

A literary young man went to the boarding house of the Widow Flapjack, on Austin avenue, and asked the landlady what a certain room would cost per month with board. “Ten dollars without board, and twenty with board,” “Ah, well! I’ll take the room, board and all,” replied the literary gent: “and at night, madam, I’ll read over my composition to yon.” “In that flue I’ll not charge vou anything for hom’d,” said tho Widow Flapjack. 11 AH, you appreciate poetry.* “That’s not it. The satisfaction I’ll have in knowing that yon can’t spout poetry while yon are chewing your grub is oheap at $lO a month.” — Texas Siftings. - -7 The property of the Princetdn Theological KemiaSyts estimated at $1,389,696.. 7