Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1879 — Taking Her at Her Word. [ARTICLE]

Taking Her at Her Word.

Mistress (who has caught the odor of a strong pipe) —“Have you company in the kitchen, Bridget?” Bridget—“No, ma’am.” Mistress (peeps in and sees two men, and exclaims)—“Why, Bridget, how can you tell me such a story ?” Bridget —“Story is it? Shure when your cousin was coming the other day didn’t ye tell me not to get anything extra for dinner, as ye didn’t consider him company? and faith it’s only me cousins inside, ma’am. Story, indade!” A leading journal of St. Petersburg has gone so far in its animosity to Germany as to hint that the Emperor Will-, iam visited the CiW only as a spy.