Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1893 — A Legal Transaction. [ARTICLE]

A Legal Transaction.

Detroit Free Pres*. A young man who probably belonged to the class known as “hired men” among farmers, called* upon a Detroit lawyer the other day and bargained for “advice” for three dollars. Then he threw down three silver dollars and said: “Sposen I put 13 in a savings bank?” “Well?” “Then I take a pen and put 000 after the Agger 8? “Well?” “Would it be agin the law?” “Not unless you tried to draw three thousand dollars. ” “But I’m not going to try to. I probably shan’t even ask for the three dollars.” “What’s the object?" “Girl out my way. I love her. She partly recips. She’d recip altogether if she thought I had lots of sugar.” * “And you’ll show her the bank book?” “I will.” “But after your marriage, what then? How’ll you ever explain?” “Easy as grease. Just tell her that the bank has busted, and we must live for each other alone. Law can’t tech me, eh?” “No.” “Good day! Got the $3 in the bank now, and here goes to nail the ciphers! Mary Jane, thou art my own sweet whippoorwill, and I’ll Det a penful of hogs agin an ox yoke thou art!”