"This played-out old suit of mine. It has ruined my chances everywhere."
—Texas Siftings.
Family Loyalty.
A Stevens avenue young lady was much pained and shocked as she walked down the street yesterday to see her young brother sitting astride the prostrate body of another boy and raining down blows upon his struggling victim.
"Johnny!" she almost screamed, "what are you doing? Come here this minute. Aren't you ashamed of yourself, fighting this way in the street?"
The boy reluctantly arose from his vanquished antagonist and faced his indignant sister. Then he explained:
"Well, I don't care. He said you wasn't good looking. I don't think you are either; but it ain't none o' his funeral. So I licked him."
—Minneapolis Journal.