Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1879 — The Weed. [ARTICLE]

The Weed.

A comical story is told of two wellknown Southern clergymen, one of whom undertook to rebuke the other for using the weed. “Brother G.,” he exclaimed, without stopping to ask any other questions, “is it possible that you chew tobacco?” “I must confess I do,” the other quietly replied. “Then I would quit it, sir,” the old gentleman energetically continued. “It is a very unclerical practice, and a very uncleanly one. Tobacco! Why, sir, even a hog won't chew it.” “Father C., do you chew tobacco ?” responded the amused listener. “I? No, sir!” he answered gruffly, with much indignation. “Then, pray, which is most like the hog, you or I ?” The old doctor’s fat sides shook with laughter as he said: “ Well, I have been fairly caught this time.”