Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1894 — The Fresh Young Man. [ARTICLE]

The Fresh Young Man.

Argonaut. A very “fresh” younc man lately made the acquaintance of a young lady from Boston, to whom he proceeded to pour out a long story of some adventure in which he had played the hero. .His listener was much surprised. “Did you really do that?” she asked. “I done it,” answered the proud young man, and he began forthwith upon another long narrative, more startling even than the first. The Boston woman again expressed her polite surprise. “Yes,” said the fellow, with an inflation of the chest, “that’s what I done.” A third story followed, with another “I done it,” and then the Boston girl remarked: “Do vcmknow you remind me so strongly of Banquo’s ghost?” “You mean the ghost in Shakespeare’s play?” “Yes.” “And why?” “Why, don’t you remember that Macbeth said to him, ‘Thou eanst not say I did it?’ ” The young man could not imagine why everybody laughed.