Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — Tongue Tangiers. [ARTICLE]

Tongue Tangiers.

If your tongues be in good condition for doing a little acrobatic work, try reading the following word-curiosity aloud. It may be familiar to some of you. for It is one of the treasures that the Boston Journal dug up out of an old scrap-book: If you stick a stick across a stick Or stick a cross across a stick Or cross a stick across a stick * Or stick a cross across a cross Or cross a cross across a stick Or cross a cross across a cross Or stick a cross stick across a stick Or stick a crossed stick across a crossed ■\ 'stick Or cross a crossed stick across a cross Or cross a crossed stick across a stick Or cross n crossed stick across a crossed stick. Would that-bo an abrostie?