Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1879 — Coming ! [ARTICLE]

Coming !

The nervous mother of a bright little boy was alarmed lest he should take the whooping-cough, which prevailed in the neighborhood. She talked so much about it and worried over it, that she had infected the child to such an extent that he would scarcely leave her side. One night after the little fellow had been put to sleep, a donkey was driven past

the house, and, when just opposite, set up his he-haw. With a shriek the little fellow was out of bed, screaming at the top of his voice, “The whooping-cough is coming, mammal the whoopingcough is coming f”