Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1879 — An Old-Timer. [ARTICLE]

An Old-Timer.

My grandfather’s breath was too strong for * the house, So he slept ninety years In the shed; It was stronger by far than the old man him ’ self— At least that’s what grandmother said It was got on the mom when he swallowed his first horn: You could smell It as you passed by his side; But it stopped short, never te smell again, When the old man died. * ’ Ninety years he kept swimming on \ Tick, tick, tick, tick; His breath fairly killing from ’ , This tick, tick, tick, tick. But It’s stoppled now, let us thank heaven, And the old man’s dead. • —{“Em” In Inter Ocean. Iff. . ’ .11 “I■’ ’ i