Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1903 — Why Ho Wished to Return. [ARTICLE]

Why Ho Wished to Return.

A theatrical company was playing in Texas when one of tb4 auditors, who had been making considerable disturbance by reason* of having imbibed too frequently and freely, arose from his seat and left the theater, refusing the proffered return cheek# After taking a few more drinks he returned And demanded admission, but had no ticket. ’ ' “You can't come in,” asserted the doorkeeper. “I’d like to why?” replie^the drunken man. 5 “I paid my money'and I’m as good as you are.” “You come in,” replied the doorkeeper, “because you’re drunk.” “Of course I’m drunk, you fool," retorted the man. “You don’t suppose Td want back in if I wasn’t drunk, do you?”—Dea Moines Register.