Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1883 — The Hill Wasn't Steep Enough. [ARTICLE]

The Hill Wasn't Steep Enough.

I see him bobblingdown town this “Well, I guess his ankle got sprained with all toe rest You see, my chum and me went bobbing, and pa said he supposed ke used to be the rreetget bobber, when he was a boy, that ever was. He said he used to slide down a hill that was steeper than a church steeple. We asked him to go with us, and we went to that street that goes down by the depot, and we had two sleds hitched together, and there were mor'n a hundred boys, and pa wanted to steer, and he got on the front sled, and when we got about half way down toe sled slewed, and my chum and me got off all right, but pa got shut up between the two sleds, and the other boys behind they all run over pa and one sled runner caught him. in toe trowsers leg, and dragged him over the slippery ice clear to the bottom, and the whole layout run into the street car, and the mules got wild and kicked, and pa’s suspenders broke, and when my chum and me got down there pa was under the car, and a boy’s boots were in pa’s shirt-bosom, ahd another boy was straddle of pa’s neck, and the crowd rushed up from the depot and got pa out, and he began to yell ‘fire,’ and ‘police,’ and he kicked at a boy that was trying to get his sled out of the small of pa’s back, and a policeman came along and pushed pa and said, ‘Go away from here, ye owld divil, and let the b’ys enjoy themselves,’ and he was going to arrest pa, when me and my chum told him we would take pa home. Pa said the hill was not steep enough for him, or he wouldn’t have fell off. He is offal stiff to-day, but he says he will go skating with us next week, and show us how to skate. Pa mean's well, but he don’t realize that he is getting stiff and can’t be as as he used to be.— Peck’s Sun.