| Show ItlUl His Choice One day during last October Bald a rel icsentatlvc from one of the southern slates to a W asl Ington reporter I had ocnlon to get out In the mouotaloo from one of the interior county scats where I had some law buslne s My mission was to secure n deposition from the If 01 a mounlola farmer nd when the wotk wua clone I was asked to rmnln to dlnnr It w not otlrely to my liking for I knew what that kind ot n dinner meant but I could not de cllne the Invitation It was a verr homely affair Indeed corn bread and bacon I > elng the leading lands U my right sat a boy of 15 who wns rather a foxy joungster though he had never been beon the limit of the count He was quite Inquisitive after he Ii 1 ad m ee a start und durlni the course ft hllnqulrl Jccarn ponal I reckon our usler belr n vu set here In the mountains ho cald with a nod to the spiead before us Oh I don t Know I parried It U I different In the city I reckon you have while bread all the time haven you Oh jes No corn bread a tall Only when I want It1 At first there was Incredulity In his eyes then It faded and there came admiration ad-miration and longing Oemlnenlly goshl he exclaimed In a rapture l0I ralher lea congressman than go tor heaven I shire wouldl And ho wa 0 rlouly In ernet that I dldn t dare laugh |
