Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1870 — Stretch it a Little. [ARTICLE]

Stretch it a Little.

A Lima girl and her their way to the store one winter morning. The grass on the common was white wltn frost, and the wind was very damp. They were both poorly dressed, but the littie girl had a kind of cloak over her which she seemed to have outgrown. , As they walked briskly along, *he drew the boy closer to her and »id: „ “ Come under my ooat, Johnny- „ “ It isn’t big enough for both, aW*r. “ Then I’ll try and stretch it a lust*, and they were soon as close together and as warm as birds in the same nest. Now* why em’t we all stretch our comforts a iittlef There are many shivering bodies and sad hearts, and weeping eyes tnthe’world, just because peopledon«Jt stretch their comforts beyond themselves. —wagprfrw. ~ , —A Colorado gankner haa g*db«*d twenty-four hugdred quarts of ties from an acre find a b»M of vines this