Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1905 — Shutting Him Off. [ARTICLE]

Shutting Him Off.

“Now, if I wire only an ostrich,” began the mean man at the breakfast table, as he picked up one of his wife’s biscuits, “then •” “Oh, if you only were,” interrupted the patient better half of the combine, “then I might get a few feathers for that old hat I’ve worn for three or four seasong.”