Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1877 — The Force of Habit. [ARTICLE]

The Force of Habit.

A party of ladies and gentlemen were in the rear of our office, watching canalboats lock through into Lake Chiynplain. The most ignorant one about canal matters was a young lady, who had passed many summers on the ‘ ‘great hoss oshen” when her father was Captain of a canal-boat. Her remarks disgusted “ an old salt,” who was acquainted with her previous history. Walking off a distance, he placed both hands to his mouth and bawled out: “ Low bridge J" The only one in the party to respond was the aforesaid young lady, who bowed so low thatethe feathers on her fashionable jockey hat swept the tow-path,— Whitehall (N. I.) Times.