Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1904 — Rural Liars. [ARTICLE]

Rural Liars.

Old Inhabitant (loafing at Cross Roads grocery)—Talkin’ about crop failures, I remember a time when people had to eat up all the farm stock and then live on the fodder wot they had saved fer the cattle. Older Inhabitant—Huh! That’s nothin’. Why, I re-collect the time when provisions got so scarce that the starvin’ farmers lied to go out an’ shoot an amatoor sportsman fer dinner, an’ then cook him with the wood from the “No Trespass” signs.