Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1891 — Of Course He Was. [ARTICLE]

Of Course He Was.

Last Saturday afterribon eight schoolboys, all armqd with guns and bows and arrows, who had been out in the country on a hunt, were comdown Cass avenue when a boy who didn't go met them and asked: “Where’s your game" “None'o’ yer buzness.” “Tramped all day in the snow an didn’t get a thing! Didn t pay, iihl, it?" “It didn't, eh!’ replied the Leader of the band. “Oh, no—we are chumps, we are! We didn't get, a! shot at a blue jay, and lick a boy who was sweeping out. a school-house And we didn’t see more’n a million rabbit tracks and hear a squirrel bark! Come on, bovs—he's jealous! The first knowrweathcr recordwas kept by Walter Merle for the years 1331 to 1344. A fetV photo graphic copies of the original sat'n manuscript, now in the Bodleian Library, have just been made. .. A grain of fine sand would cover 100 of the minute scales of the human skin, 'and yet each of these seales ia turn covers from 300 to 500 pores.