Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1885 — Everything in Luck. [ARTICLE]

Everything in Luck.

“Ha! ha! ha!” he chuckled as he held up a ten-pound turkey for the inspection of a pedestrian; “but do you see this?” “Ah—yes. Buy him!” “No, sir-e-e! I won him!” “How?” * “Got him on a raffle.” “Y-e-s. How long you been at it ?” “Not over three months.” “Is this your first?” “Yes.” “Any idea of how much it has cost you?” .“Of course—got it all down here in my note-book. This hir’d has cost me sl7—not a cent over that. I know men whp have thrown away $25 without getting so much as the leg of a chicken, while I’ve a ten-pound turkey for sl7! Luck! Ah-ha! Um!”—Free Press. 1