Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1907 — In Trouble Again. [ARTICLE]

In Trouble Again.

Mr. Makinbrakes, who had been urged to stay for luncheon, was trying to make a graceful getaway. “Awfully sorry,” he said, “and ever so much obliged, but I couldn’t think of it. It’s a lot of bother to have people drop in on you unexpectedly and to feel that you’ve got to invite .them to stay and eat with you—er- —just to be polite, you know —I mean that it’s always a lot of bother for me, of course, particularly when—when it happens to be somebody that you don’t care for, anyhow—speaking of myself, you understand-—or perhaps I should say I don’t mean myself in this particular case —well, anyhow, I have an engagement, besides, or it would afford me great pleasure, I assure you, to —to—well, good afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Varney.”