Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1881 — A Natural Mistake. [ARTICLE]

A Natural Mistake.

’Squire McGill liad occasion to go to Cortland, and while there he went into a grocery and purchased a dozen lemons, making the remark to the lady clerk that he guessed he’d have some lemonade when he got home. “Don’t you want a squeezer?” she asked. ‘ ‘ Marm ?” “Won’t you have a squeeze, sir?” “Well, marm, es I was a young man I would. But I’ve been married nigh onto thirty years, and the old lady is dreffle sot "agin huggin’ out o’ tlie family.” An explanation was made, and the ’squire bought a squeezer to settle it.— Exchange.