Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1889 — When Robert Was a Boy. [ARTICLE]

When Robert Was a Boy.

John W. Burdette, for many years editorial writer and business manager of the Burlington Hawkeye, is a younger brother of the famous humorist. He says: “Bob always bubbled over with fun, and his stock of stories was exhaustless, even when a child. He could make us a good fairy tale or adventure at a moments notice, and his younger brothers were always ftftor hina for ‘just one more story, Bob,’ whenever we got him alone. At bed-time we were especially annoying to him. After we were all cuddled up —for we slept three in a bed—Bob would tell us a score of stories, and we constantly begged for oae more until he would become weary. I guess that some of Bob’s best stories were told to us in those days. I would not like to say a thousand times for fear of exaggeration, and if I said less than a thousand times it might not be up to the number of occasions when Bob was obliged tp kick us both out of bed and roll himself up in the blankets and go to sloop in spite of us, for we never tirod of hearing him, no matter how sleepy and tired he might become. Yes,- if one-hun-dredth part of. the fancies, witticisms and inventions which Bob entertained his little brothers with could be printed, the world would call him a genius of the most marvelous kind; for the thousand tales of the Arabian Nights were never more interesting than those winter nights’ tales of my good brother Bob. There was never a bet - ter brother.”

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