Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1905 — He Lost His Dignity. [ARTICLE]

He Lost His Dignity.

A pompous individual from the east, says' a Texas newspaper, happened to he traveling in western Texas and stopping at a hotel, when trouble started among some cowboys, who prepared to conduct the argument with revolvers. “Stranger,” said a Texan to the pompous man, “it would be a good idee fur you to lay down on the floor till this dispute is settled.” 1 “It does not comport with the dignity of a Boston gentleman of my professions,” said the pompous gentleman, “to wallow in the dirt ou the floor.” “You may be right, stranger,” answered the Texan as he prepared to recline, “hut my opinion is that yon had better lose yer dignity fur the time bein’ than to have the daylights let into your system by a 44.” He lost his ( dignity.