Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1885 — A Typical Texas Landlord. [ARTICLE]

A Typical Texas Landlord.

On the Ist of the month Jim Murry, an Austin landlord, called on Hostetter McGinnis for rent. “Mr. Murry, I don’t think you ought to charge me S2O a month for the rent of this room. When it rains the water runs right into the room through the roof—it leaks so.” “What? There is water running on the premises? You will have to pay $5 extra for that How long have you been enjoying the water privilege at my expense?”— Texas Siftings. Men are like wagons—they rattle prodigiously when there it nothing in them.