Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1902 — Repartee that Hurt. [ARTICLE]

Repartee that Hurt.

A correspondent at Ithaca, N. Y., sends the Record the following streetcar Incident: One of the last sharp November days a boy entered the car leaving the door open, much to the discomfort of an old gentleman who sat next. As the wind chilled his marrow his temper rose. Leaning across his seat and taking the kid by his ear, he said: “Were you brought up in a barn? Why don’t you shut the door?” The boy said nothing, but closed the door, coming back to his seat in tears. This sight moved the old man to relenting pity. ‘‘There, there,” he said, “little man, I didn’t really mean you were brought up In a barn.” “That’s just it,” retorted the kid. “I was brought up in a barn, arid every time I see a jackass it makes me think of it?’—Philadelphia Record.