Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — He Began to Suspect. [ARTICLE]

He Began to Suspect.

He had stayed and stayed and stayed and stayed and stayed and stayed and stayed and was still staying, when, either by accident or design, she gaped loudly. ' “You don’t mean to say you did that on purpose?” he playfully asked. Without answering this leading question she looked him carefully in the eye and said: “Can you tell me the difference between my somewhat impolite exclamation and an article of dining-room furniture ?” “No-o,” he falteringly returned. “The difference,” she explained, inadvertently directing her gaze toward his hat, “the difference lies in the fact that one is a sideboard, while the other was a bored sigh.” Mechanically his eyes followed the direction of her steadfast gaze, and encountering the hat he put it on in a dazed sort of way, and the ma«s convention adjourned.— RocklandCourierGazette. *