Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1887 — Misery Lowen Company. [ARTICLE]

Misery Lowen Company.

pfr jianguishmgly)—“l have been, hoping that you would in time come to regard me as your company.” She (bashfully)—“Company! What do -you mean by that?” He (courageously)— “Well, as your bean.” She (blushingly) —Oh! That's what company means.” He (smilingly)—“Yes. And if you consider me as your company I should, like to consider you as my misery.” She (wonderingly)—“Yoiir misery?” He (triumphantly)—“Yes; because, you know, misery loves company.” She (demurely)—“l see. We’ll admit, then, that you are company and I am misery. But don’t you think misery a very disagreeable name for a girl, and that it ought to be changed, say, to company?” Then he popped.— Boston Courier.