Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1877 — “Fight It Out.” [ARTICLE]

“Fight It Out.”

A story is told of a daughter of a prominent person now in the locture field, who is peculiarly interesting and suggestive of unconscious wisdom. A gentleman was invited to the lecturer’s house to tea. Immediately on being seated at the table, the little girl astonished the family circle and the guest by the abrupt question : ‘ * Where is your wife ?” Now the gentleman, having been recently separated from the partner of his life, was taken so completely by surprise that he stammered forth the truth : “ I don’t kuow.” “Don’t know!” replied the enfant terrible. “Why don’t you kuow?” Finding that the child persisted in her interrogatories, despite the mild reproof of her parents, he concluded to make a clean breast of the matter and have it over at once. So he said, with a calmness which was the result of inward expletives : “Well, we don’t live together; we think, as wc can’t agree, we’d better not.” He stifled a groan as the child began again, and darted an exasperated look at her parents. {Bid the little torment would not be quieted until she explained: “Can't agree! Then why don’t you fight it out, as pa and ma do ?” “ Vengeance is mine,” laughingly retorted the visitor, after “ pa” and “ ma” exchanged looks of holy horn -r, followed by the inevitable roar. —New Haven Register.