Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1892 — Rubbing It In On Him. [ARTICLE]

Rubbing It In On Him.

He was a most forlorn specimen of genus tramp > raiment which exposed bis person to the nipping winds of October. Each blast which played familiarly with his limbs and dallied with the tatters of his garments, convinced him that it was time to hibernate. Picking up a brick be shied it through a pawn brokers’ window and then grabbed a handful of chains. In a few moments he was in the strong arm of the law, and for a few days be reposed luxuriously in jafo In time his case went up to the criminal court and the Judge considerately sent him up for two years. This was more than he bad bargained for, but be accepted bis sentence with a resignation which was trifiy commendable if not heroic. * ’J .# * “ 1 suppose dey'li put'4p Stripes on me right away, ,r he said to the <jcp uty who escorted him to State & prison. [ “Naw, ” was the rather curt an swer, “get a hair cut first. ” " Hum, 1 kinder need one, ” said the tramp, trying to run his fingers through his unkempt locks and tangled beard. “Then’ll coino dc stripes, hey ? ” “Naw, they’ll give you a bath next." “A what?” almost shrieked the tramp; “ a bath ? Say, mister,ain’t dat kinder rubbin’ it in on a feller V I trowed dat brick t'rough de winder and made a bluff at stcalin’ jes to get a few mouths lodgin’ in jail, but de Jedge has sent me to dc pen instid; but 1 don't mind dat. I’m no good, but I kin stan' a hair cut an whisker trim widout squealin’; bat say, mlsterirare you dead cert about dat bath ? ” - He was assured that there could be no mistakeabout it. Sfitf mist tor nn ga fipnii n An 1 1 W “J» MXSOVfJ*! VU up u vUU } Utfll I

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