Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1906 — Troubles of the Ancients. [ARTICLE]

Troubles of the Ancients.

Briareus was bewailing the fact that he had a hundred hands. “They’re convenient for spanking purposes, of course,” he said, “or for putting up a stovepipe, but, great Scott, see what they cost me!” Pulling off his fifty pairs Of gloves, he resigned himself for the next four hours ministrations of his army of mani-