Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — He Wasn’t There. [ARTICLE]

He Wasn’t There.

A Texas preacher caught four or five boys in his peach trees. He did not punish them, but merely said: “You ought to be ashamed of yourselves, particularly the big boys. Which of you boys here is the oldest?” “He ain’t here at all, sir. He didn’t know that we were coming,” said a youngster.— Texas Siftings.