Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1879 — He Fell. [ARTICLE]

He Fell.

Hugh Fell lives uptown. A funny man stopped at his house one day and asked for him. . Mr. Fell appeared and made himself known. “You fell? ” said the funny man. “Yes, sir,” was the reply. “Did you hurt yourself? ” “Sir?” “You say you fell? ” “Yes-.” “Well, if you fell, did you hurt yourself? ” asked the joker, with a serious phiz. The man saw his drift now, and fell into a passion, and struck straight from the shoulder, and the joking fellow fell into the gutter, while the feller, Fell, cried: “Now you fell Into the hands of Hugh Fell, so let me ask you were you much hurt when you fell? ” The bona fide Hugh Fell walked into the house, while the fellow he fell picked himself up, felt both sore and sheepish, and no longer felt any desire to learn whether Hugh Fell or any other feller hurt himself when he fell.— Philadelphia Sunday Transcript.