Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1906 — But They Never Came Again. [ARTICLE]

But They Never Came Again.

In a rural town in an adjoining jurisdiction there lives an old lady who is the possessor of an economical disposition and two prepossessing daughters, who are belles of the town, says a writer in the Buffalo Times, -Mot, long ago, on a .Sunday..afternoon, two youths with a decided liking for pretty girls drove out to see these two fair damsels. They were cordially re-,-eived, delightfully entertained, and when supper time came invited to partake of the evening meal. Supper over, they still lingered. Bedtime came, they still tarried. The old lady, used to early hours, went to bed at 9 o’clock, but the two young men found no fault with that. Waking from a sleep of.several hours and seeing a light still burning, the old lady called: "Matilda!” “Yes, mother.” “Have the boys gone?” . The boys, with nods and pantomime, besought Matilda to answer' in the affirmative, so the daughter answered again: “Yes, mother.’’—- - - : i “Matilda!” “Well, mother?” “Wasn’t them two boys hogs for butter?” —Cincinnati Commercial Tribune