Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1892 — A Happy Thought. [ARTICLE]

A Happy Thought.

“Tommy, I hear you got a thrashing in school to-day.’’ Tommy: ,’Yos, ma, the teacher whipped mo, bat he is getting so old and weak that it didn't hurt much.” “Did you cry:” “Oh. yes, I bawled so you could have heard it on the next, block.” “Why did you do that?” “1 wanted to make lue old man feel happy once more.”