A MODERN SPARTAN FATHER.
He was driving out of Pjainfield the other day with such a satisfied look on his face that an acquaintance hailed him with, "Well, Uncle Billy, what's happened P " " You know them five sons of mine ? " •• Oh, yes." " Wall, they are allus buyin 1 and sellin' and speculatin', and not a day passes that tome of 'em don't want me to indorse his note." "And of course you do ?"*" No. Them boys are rather shaky, yon know, but I'm going to after this. Hang it, I'm their own father, you see, and it looks kinder mean to refuse 'em. I've been down here and deeded the farm to the old woman, put a chattel mortgage on the stock and sold off most of the tools, and now if the boys want my name on the notes I can sit down and give il to them like a Spartan father."
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4639, 16 November 1883, Page 3
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153A MODERN SPARTAN FATHER. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4639, 16 November 1883, Page 3
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