Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1878 — How He Got a Square Meal. [ARTICLE]

How He Got a Square Meal.

A ragged, shivering, middle-aged man called at a house on Sibley street and asked for food, but the lady of the house called out, * ‘ Why don’t you work for your food?” “I would if I knew where I could find work,” he promptly replied. ' “ There’s a place down town where you can saw wood and earn your dinner,” she continued. That seemed to stick him for half a minute, but he finally said, with great solemnity,

“Madam, let me state a parallel case. There is a place ip heaven for you, but you don’t want to die till you are driven right to it.” She pondered over his philosophy for a few seconds and then called to the cook to pass out half a loaf of bread and Some meat.