Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1895 — BRER WHANGDOODLE BAXTER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BRER WHANGDOODLE BAXTER.

Borne Good Advice in Quaint ana . _ Homely Form. , 1 Texas Siftings. *.

HIS EBEMN* etesubjee’ ob my discose is gall^ which is some* - times likewise called cheeks I nolises in de papers dat nerve food is advert tised. Dis is de kind ob food de man eats wh<| wants ter ocker-* py two seats 19 er crowded rail-* road kear. Book aginti • has lots of gall w h i c h is also

called brassT- A book agint waa oncet struck by litenin, an’ de place whar ho stood looked as if a brass cannon had been melted dar. De life ob de book agint is fuller wormwood an’ gall. Yer kin hardly se-de wormwood. = Dars lots ob folks what trabbles on dar cheek. I seed one at the ralerode deno’. He jumped from de train when hit was in moshun. A man nebber really finds out what cheek means ontil he sees de mill boss what has bin instrumental in cuttiu’ down wages wal?in around wid de contribution box in church. In mv erpinyun de climax ob gall is fur er man ter require de loan ob my umbreller, ’cause he ain’t gwinter want it on!es3 de sun’s powerful hot, or it’s er rainin’, an’at dem times I needs my umbreller mysefJ wineyard, Sam says dat er man should be ninety-five per cent, backbone. Huh, dat don’t leab much for cheek. Cheek is de tite rope on which crafty men often crosses the chasm ob ignunce to success. Cheek boldly enters whar modesty dar not pull da dore bell. Julius Seezer, who frura his name must hab berlonged ter de African race, wrote dat all gall was divided inter free parts, but dar is niggahs Vn dis congregashmr who rod - ter preach widout any celery, who Beems ter hab got it all an’ underttided. If you’d succeed -- - ' " Have lots ol> gall— And neblier fool Wid alcohol.