Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1906 — A Joke that Falled Twice. [ARTICLE]

A Joke that Falled Twice.

Miss Adeliiert had just returned from a vacation spent at a tiny village on the Maine coast In recounting herexperiences she talked somewhat for the benefit of a cousin," a quiet person, who was visiting her city relatives for the first time in many years. “There was just one store in the place,” said Miss Adelbert, “and they kept everything, that iS, they had to keep. “One day I went in to buy some soap, and just on a venture I asked the clerk if they had Browning. He stared at me a second, then went off and looked under the counters and on the shelves. “Presently he came back and said, ‘No, miss, we ain’t got none. We got blacking, an’ we got bluing, an’ we got whiting, but we ain’t got a bit o’ browning in the store.”’ ""Miss Adelbert Had to make several protests to assure her audience that this really happened; Finally the cousin asked, gravely, “But, Cousin Bert, why didn’t you say varnish in the first place?”