Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1890 — The Old Story. [ARTICLE]

The Old Story.

A pretty girl with a horrid cold Spoke to a horrid man, And said: "A cold’s a horrid thing,” And then to cough began—- “ Sometimes I think—in fact, I fear”— This said between each cough—- - "That by this horrid cold some day I will be carried off." The horrid man then told anew The story that is old—- " 1 wish," said he, “that I might be That horrid, horrid cold."

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