Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1883 — The Shepherds Who Saw the Star in the East. [ARTICLE]

The Shepherds Who Saw the Star in the East.

In the “Chester Mysteries,” first performed in 1268, the shepherds who saw the star in the east have the homely names of Harvey, Tudd and Trowle, and Trowle’s gift to our Savior is Va pair of his wife’s old hose.” In the same Noah’s wife refuses to go into the ark without her “gossepes evericli ope,” and swears by St. John and Christ. When'she is at last foroed in by her sons she salutes Noah, on his welooming her, with a hearty box on the ear. — Notes and Queries. A Westekn farmer advertises that he wants a first-class potato-masher; there are lots of mashers in- Philadelphia, but they are all of the smallpotato order.— Philadelphia Item.