Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1909 — Extremely Touchy. [ARTICLE]

Extremely Touchy.

A well known writer was once stopping In company with a struggling young author at a somewhat primitive hotel In Normandy. One fine morning the former sought out the host and addressed him as follows : “You would oblige me by making yonr charges as low as possible for my young colleague. He is not a rich man.” The ’Hndlord, delighted with the presence fn his house of the man of renown, promised to have due consideration for the purse of the younger guest But a few days afterward the- famous author came to him again, saying: “By the way, don’t let my bill be bigger than that of my young friend. It would humiliate him; boys like that are so extremely touchy!”