Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — “Wuss than That.” [ARTICLE]

“Wuss than That.”

A lone man sat in the railroad depot at Elmira, having a lean grip-sack at his elbow, and his battered hat drawn down over his eyes. “Come from New York ?” queried an old chap in a gray wool suit, as he sat down on the bench beside him. “Yes.” “They say the stock market down thar’ has bin rayther perturbed of late ?” continued the old man. “Yes.” “Happen to perturb you any ?* “Perturb! Perturb!” growled the Yorker, “why, you old ass, I was cleaned out of $48,000 inside of three days, and am now hunting for a railroad job in the West! Isn’t that perturbed ?” “Well,” answered the old man, as he scratched his head from north to south, “I should say that it was wuss—considerably wuss, and Im bio wed if I don’t travel with you? I’ve losts34o at bunko, and we kin squeeze hands and sympathize!”