Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1889 — A Borrowing Family. [ARTICLE]

A Borrowing Family.

Texas Siftings. Little girl—Mrs. Brown, my mother sent me to ask you if you would lend her a dozen eggs. She wants to set a hen on them. Mrs. Brown—l didn’t know your mother kept any hens. She hasn’t got any hen yet, but Mrs. Smith has promised to lend ma ope as soon as she has the eggs for the hen to seton. '