Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1878 — A Boy With His Ear in His Pocket. [ARTICLE]

A Boy With His Ear in His Pocket.

-» in i ■ Yesterday a small boy With his head bandaged entered a book store and said he wanted to buy some sqhorf books. As the clerk was waiting oh him hoSinquired the reason why his customer’s head was tied up in such % shape. “ Oh,” responded the boy, in a mat-ter-of-fact way, “ a horse hit off my ear „h,t wuT.SMiS?***?"' “ I tell you he did bite it off,” the lad said, with some warmth, “ and I can prove it, too. Just you look here -now. and rearfling down into his pocket he, drew forth a ivad of newspaper soaked with blood, and slapped ft down on the counter, A crowd formed around the little fellow, who with great gravity and a pardonable air of triumph proceeded to uuwmp the unsavory mass. Then nb pulled forth a ghastly relic in the shape of % human ear, evidently torn out by the roots. “ There, didn't I tell yon aoP” be cried extiitingly. “He fetched il off at the first nip.” The boy gave his name ad Eagan, and said he lived on over the shtehfHhe stitff, waujHrt ■file littlfe fellow’s ear jn hts teeth and chewed it off. Haring thus delivered himself, the, lad oaceklUp rewrapped his precious ear, throat it into his pocket and departed- —Qil C/Ui/ Derrick,