Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — A Pleasant Day in the West. [ARTICLE]

A Pleasant Day in the West.

“My dear,” said a Western farmer to his wife, a 3 he got out of bed, “will you look and see what kind of a day it is?” “Well,” she replied* gazing out of the window, “Mr. Smith's barn aoross the way is being blown into the next lot but ” “Not his new briok barn?” “No, the old wooden one; and it looks as if the roof of his house will have to go; but I don’t believe there will be much of a storm.” “Probably not,” replied the husband: “but still we can hardly expeot settled weather at this season of the year. 1 guess I had better drive to town to-day instead of waiting until Saturday, it might storm then.”— Flit adelphia Call. V