Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1882 — Life’s Spring Blessings. [ARTICLE]

Life’s Spring Blessings.

He came out of the side gate with a kangaroo motion to his legs, and an expression of countenance that would have frozen a tramp into a solid block of ice in six seconds. Then he turned, and while he held to the fence with one hand he shook the other at the house in a wild, strange manner. Then he stood on one foot and felt of the other as tenderly as if he was caressing a new-blown rose. “ Wes it all there ?” He seemed to doubt, and that, same wild expression floated over his countenance again, and again he waved his arm around his head and shook his fist at an unseen enemy. A white, scared face appeared at a window, and the man danced up and down on His leg and cried out: “ Never ! Never again on earth !” A white Land behind the glass beckoned to him, but he waved his arm and replied: “ I won’t! I’ll send up six men with blocks and tackle!” The white face was pressed against the pane and the blue eyes had a beseeching look, but the man hobbled along on the grass and growled out: “ I’ll smash the infernal thing with an ax!” Then a lady appeared in the door and seemed to want to explain something, but he threw down his hat with an awful whack aud interrupted her with : “ I tell ye I’m going down and have this foot amputated, and when you see me clumping around with an old wooden pedestal you’ll remember that I told you we ought to turn the house around instead of trying to move that old cookstove into the back kitchen !”—Detroit Tree Press.