Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1904 — Put His Foot In It. [ARTICLE]

Put His Foot In It.

He came in late, stepped in without ringing, and, striding softly into the parlor,, dropped into an arm chair with the easy grace of a young man who Is accustomed to the program. “By Jove!” ho said to the figure Bitting In the dim obscurity on the sofa. “By Jove! I thought I was never going to see you alone, again. The maternal kangaroo never goes away from the menagerie nowadays, does she, Minnie?” “Well, not amazingly frequent,” cheerfully replied the old lady from the sofa. “Minnie's away flirting so much of the time how, I have to stay In.” ~ Under the limes at the end of the old garden the moping cats complained to the. moon much In their usual style,, the watchdogs-never sang more clearly,* and the plaintive cry of the locomotive filled, the night with poetry; .but the young man didn't hear It all the same. “And,; by George!” he said to a friend fifteen minutes later, “if I did not leave my hat and. my cano In the hall! Think of ’em? Forget ’em! Bless me if I knew anything. What I wanted was fresh air, and I wanted about thirty acres of It, and mighty quick, too. Phew!”