Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1877 — How Winter Serves Mr. “Lo.” [ARTICLE]

How Winter Serves Mr. “Lo.”

The sudden advent of cold weather caught Mr. Indian napping, he having not yet put his house in order and exchanged his linen duster for a beaver overcoat lined with sealskin. The old man and his wife, and his son and daughter, likewise his aunt and his mother-in-law, turned out ‘of their wickiup early this morning, and the whole family might have been seen shivering over the bonfires built on Main street of the rubbish swept out from the stores. Last week the noble son of the forest elevated his nose and uttered an unseemly ejaculation when offered work. To-day he goes around pleading for a chance to chop a little wood, saying : “Heap cold; me heap dam hungly.”— Austin (Nev.) Reveille, Some of the young bloods of New York city have inaugurated a series of fox hunts after the English fashion on Long island, and Anti-Cruelty Bergh has issued a proclamation against fixe sport to the farmers of the island.