Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — A Close Shave. [ARTICLE]

A Close Shave.

A Boston lady,' ■whose husband was frequently afflicted with nightmare, was one night awakened by a noise, and to her horror she saw her husband sitting up in bed, saying in a whisper: “ Now I have him; he can’t escape!” and pointing his pistol at an imaginary burglar. His fiDger was on the trigger, and he was aiming directly at the head of the baby in its cradle. Quick as lightning his wife said in a low tone, “ Too low! aim higher!” He raised the pistol; she snatched it from his hand, and the danger was over.