Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1884 — Only a Humble Instrument. [ARTICLE]

Only a Humble Instrument.

“Are you captain of this craft?” asked a gentleman of an Irishman who sat on the desk of a canal-boat, puffing a short black pipe. “No, snr, Oim not, begorra. Oim oanlv the dbrum.” “The drum! What do you mean by that?” “Faith, Oi dunno. Ax the owld woman there; she’s the feller what beats me.” —Texas Siftings.