Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1885 — She Didn’t Wear a Jersey. [ARTICLE]

She Didn’t Wear a Jersey.

“Don’t your wife wear a jersey ?” blandly asked the smooth-tongued dry goods clerk of Farmer Furrow, who was making a few purchases for his better-half “Now, look a-here, young feller,” said the old granger, with a look of mingled scorn and ferocity, "don’t yer be too fresh.* I may be a countryman, but I’ll be durfied if ITI take any guff from yer.” “Why, I didn't mean anything,” timidly retorted the clerk. “I merely asked if your wife wore a jersey.” “Well, sir, if that’s all yer want to know, I’ll tell yer. She milks Jerseys and feeds ’em, but, by gosh! she doesn’t wear ’em, confound yer pictut!” -Hdurlington Hawkeye. The old-fashioned knitted purse of our grandmother’s time is revived.