Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — Had a Fellow Feeling. [ARTICLE]

Had a Fellow Feeling.

“I want to make inquiries of yon,” ho said, as be stopped a poUcVman In front of the pity Hall the other afternoon. “All right, sir,” was the reply. “Would it.be agin’ the law fur me to rub my back again’ the walls of that building?” “What’s the matter with your back?” “Got a porus plaster on it, and it itches so that I can't keep my lieels on the ground. I want tq take off my coat and vest and back up to that rotjigh wall. Would it.be again’ the lavv ?” VI dunno as it would be breaking any lay,”, said. the officer, “but I think 1 could put you on a better thing.” “Thanks! What is It?” . - “Down at the dock at the foot of-thia rtreet you’ll find a pile all splintered up and dpven full of nails and pieces of scrap iron. It’s handy to back up to, and the place is not quite so public as this.'.! “All right—much obleeged. I’ll go down and try her, and if she works all right I’ll recommend her to my friends when they happen to be In town. Out home I’ve got a section of board fence fixed up with currycombs, carpet tacks, pounded glass and old scythe blades, but I can’t wait to git tharl. Shake! You feel fur your feller man, you do, and the furst thing when I git home I’ll send you a bushel of the nicest pop corn in the State of Michigan!”—Detroit Free I’res§>.