Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — No Hero Worth a Cent. [ARTICLE]

No Hero Worth a Cent.

Texas Siftings. , Mickey—Did Pizen Jake, the Count of Bilgewater in disguise, carry der lovely dorter of der trapper up der precipice? r Stubby (yrho is reading a dime novel) *—Naw, he left her wid der Injuns an’ went after help. Mickey (looking sick)—He did? He was ’un, he was! I’d er smashed der two chiefs an’ der follerers an’ took der lovely maiden in me arms an’ carried her up der canyoon on der run! Trow der book in der g*tter, Stubby; it must be dis ’ere Sunday-scool guff.”