Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1891 — A Short Story. [ARTICLE]

A Short Story.

She. Please make me up a dose of castor oil. Smart Clerk (after a lapse of five minutes). Have a glass of soda, won’t you? She drinks soda and waits for tho oil. - < Smart Clerk. Anything else. Miss? She. The castor oil, please? Smart Clerk. Why, I gave you tho oil in the soda! She. Well, I didn't want it for myself. It was for my brother.