Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1883 — A Story of a Hedge. [ARTICLE]

A Story of a Hedge.

The place is full of osage orange hedges. They surround most of the peach orchards—probably to keep people out. “Did you ever try to get over an osage orange hedge ?*’ old man asked me this morning. “No,” I replied, ”did you?” “Yes,” he said, sadly; “I tried once—a long time ago.” “Did, eh?” “Yes.” “How long did it take you to get over it?” said he, sadly. “How long did it take me to get over it?” And the old man looked over the landscape and scratched himself and continued: “How long did it take me to get over it? Why, I don’t think lam quite over it yet.”— Delaware Cor. Pu&k. Db. H. F. Hamilton says that at least once a day girls should have then halters taken off, the bars let down, and be turned loose like young colts. “Calisthenics may be very genteel, and romping very ungenteel. but one is the shadow, the other the substance, ol healthful exercise.” Thebe cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who in neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others.— Sir W. Temple.