Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — The Editor and the Bore. [ARTICLE]

The Editor and the Bore.

One elderly hyperbolator has become a fearful nuisance to his friends with his war yarns. One day this elderly gentleman sauntered into a newspaper office, took a chair beside a journalistic friend, pulled out a Century , and opened to the map of a celebrated engagement. With a sigh the editor, who, by the way, stutters most disastrously, laid down his pen and prepared to be bored for an hour. Said the veteran: “Oh, this was a famous battle, and how well I remember the day and recall the scene. How plainly this map recalls to my mind the green fields and the dusty roads! Here, where my finger points, is where the enemy tried to turn our left flank. Here is whejre we changed, driving them back in disorder. At this point our gallant Major fell, penetrated by a score of minie bullets. And here, right beside this clump of trees, is where I had my leg broken by a bullet. * “G-G-General,” said the editor, his face as impassive as a wall, “w-w-won’t you show the b b-boys, please, where your b-b-brains were blown out?”— Boston Record.