Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1903 — Fable Brought Down to Date. [ARTICLE]

Fable Brought Down to Date.

Once there was a little girl who wai always saying naughty things, And a wise fairy cast an enchantment upon her, bo that each time she spoke noxious lizards, snakes, toads and other reptiles seemed to leap from her month. -i5.,.And there was another little girl who was always saying nice things, and the same wise fairy so Woto her spells that diamonds and rubles and money fell from the girl’s mouth when she would talk. And what became of these girls? The first one was engaged by an Astute dime museum manager and became fabulously rich. The second was gobbled up by a truffi that made her talk herself to death.—Judge.