Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1883 — Perfeetly Well Behaved. [ARTICLE]

Perfeetly Well Behaved.

A widow stood at the side door of a baggage car Watchipg the stowaft of her husband’s corpse. As aha Mreed away, another lady, also in RMftfßing, appeared with a dog, which was intrusted to the care of the baggage master. Several times, as the train stopped at stations, the owner of the dog approached the car with solicitous interrogatories about the brute’s oondition, until the patience of the baggage functionary was about exhausted. At 1 length the widow sidled np with him and asked if the poor dear was all right. “Yes, confound him!” growled the baggage master without looking around. “And another time you ship your poor dear over the road he goes by freight. I don’t mind helping a woman, but I won’t have no saffron-colored beast of obscure ancestry spewing around the floor of this car and howling for—” Just then he turned and saw his blunder. “I beg your pardon, ma’am,” he continued, stammering. “I thought yours was the dog. I take it all back, ma’am.’ The corpse has acted like a perfect gentleman.”— Drake?s Travelers' Magazine. A woman forgot to send home some work on Saturday. On Sunday morning she told a little girl who lived with her to put on her things and take the bundle under her shawl to the lady’s house. “Nobody will see it,” she said. “But is it not Sunday under my shawl, aunty?” asked the child. The sweetest thing in life is the unclouded welcome of a wife.