Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1888 — A Lesson on “Treating." [ARTICLE]

A Lesson on “Treating."

Cincinnati Times-Star. Colonel Fred Kinsinger tells a good storyj of Mr. Perry, and old Southern gentleman, who died several years ago back of Covington. Mr. Perry was an exceedingly polite man. He would go out of his way at any time to avoid offending a ne'ghbor or a friend. Ooe day a neighbor met him cn the street with: “Hello, Mr. Perry. I was just going in to have a drink. Come in and have something.” “Thank you Mr. ; I don’t care for anything/* war the answer. ‘‘But come in and take something, just for sociability’s take.” “Now, I want to be sociable and all that; lan anxious-to be sociable, but I can’t drink with y “All, right, if you don’t want to be sociable, I’ll go without drinking,” growled the friend, and silently walked along in the direction in which Mr. Perry was traveling. ■ -- ; ■■■ Presently the pair drew near a drug store, when Mr. Perry broke out with: “Mr. , I’m not feeling at all well to-day, and I think I’ll go in this drug store and get some castor oil. Won’t you join me?” “What, in a dose of caster oil?” “Yes,” “Naw, I hate ths stuff,” s vying which a chill went over the men as visible in its effects to Mr. Perry ai if the ague had seized him on the street. “But I want you to take a glass of oil with me, just to be sociable you know.” The friend still refused, when Mr. Perry said: “ Yoursociable whisky is just as distasteful to me as my sociable cil is to you, Don’t you think I’ve as much reason to be offended with you es you have with ms?” Tne pair htartiiy shook hands, the dia’ogue was cireu’ated in Covington and Mr.—l Parry was never invited to drink again.