Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1886 — Kindly Disposed. [ARTICLE]

Kindly Disposed.

He had wandered around all day trying to sell a mule he had raised on his ten acre farm,, and when night came he was compelled to stable the “critter" unsold. After supper he strolled out, and, passing the town hall where Keene was billed to play Richard, he procured a gallery ticket and went in. It was new to him, and the Keene energy was just his style. - As the play went on his enthusiasm grew and spread until it almost sprung the ventilators, but he only opened his eyes and swelled with repressed emotion. There was a limit, however, and when Richard shouted, “Ahorse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” he jumped to his feet: “Here, old man,” he sung out, “I haven’t got no boss to give you, but I've got a S2OO mule around at the tavern stable that you kin have, and I won’t charge you a d -cent for it.” It took six ushers and a policeman to quiet the house sufficiently to let the play go Merchant Trader.