Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1884 — His Business. [ARTICLE]

His Business.

A lad who is engaged at the correspondent’s desk in a large, concern surprised his mother by saying: “Well, mother, I’m in thelickerbusiness now. ” ~ “What’s that? You don’t mean to say you have given up your place and gone to selling whisky?” “No, ma’am; but I’m in the licker business all the same. ” > “How ? What kind of liquor ?” “Why, mamma, deaiV-JL lick the stamDs for the letters.”" He shut the door just in time.—Merchant Traveler.