Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1889 — A Happy thought. [ARTICLE]

A Happy thought.

"Tommy, 1 hear you got a thrashing in school to-day.” Tommy:,‘Yea, ma, the teacher whipped me, but he 1. getting so old and weak that it didn't hurt much.” "Did you ory?” “Oh. yes, I bawled so you could have heard it oo the next block.” “Why did you do that?” "1 wanted to make the old man feel happy once more.”