Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1905 — She Wished to Make Sure. [ARTICLE]

She Wished to Make Sure.

“Why, Marla,” exclaimed Mr. Calkins, hurt and indignant ns he saw the fish-wagon turning at the lane, “whatever have you gone an’ ordered flsh for to-day, and you putting up my lunch for a day's fishing?” “I know, ’Bias,” returned his wife, cheerfully, "and that’s just why. When I get my mind set on fish, It Just breaks mo all up to have to unset it. Now if you hadn’t mentioned anything about it, and had just come home to supper as If you’d been digging potatoes all day, why, I never should have missed ’em. But as ’tls, It didn’t seem as if I could let the fislimnu pass.”