Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1878 — A Change of Climate. [ARTICLE]

A Change of Climate.

Yesterday morning a forlorn cricket that had been tempted out of doors by the warm weather of the preceding days was shivering along the street looking at a cheap second-hand ulster, and wishing he were home, when he met a wasp that had been locked out during the fall house-cleaning. “ I am almost frozen,” said the cricket: “my hands are fairly numbed with cold.” “Put them in my coat-tail pockets,” replied the wasp, cheerfully, “and warm them.” The cricket did so, and the wasp immediately warmed him with the improved heating machinery located in. the after part of his system. The cricket, merely pausing to remark that there appeared to be a cayenne-pepper manufactory in the neighborhood, crawled under the plank walk to die, while the wasp, who was fond of his little joke, went away singing merrily. “Come, come away to the try-sting place.”— Burlington Jtawhr-Ego,