Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — A Sanguinary Pirate. [ARTICLE]

A Sanguinary Pirate.

“I recently heard that the engagement between you and Miss Pinfeather was broken off,” observed an Austin society swell to a compatriot in the same line of business. “Aw, ya-as,” replied the party addressed; “we meet as strangers now, and never speak as we pass by.” “What is the cause of the estrangement?” "Why, don’t chew know? Her father .is a pirate.” -» “A pirate?” “Aw, ya-as.” “Why, what are you talking about? Old Pinfeather ip no pirate.” “Why—aw—ya-as. He’s a regular freebooter. That’s the Reason that I quit going to her house.”— Texas Siftings. '