Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1884 — A Matter of Enunciation. [ARTICLE]

A Matter of Enunciation.

“What is that?” said a traveler to a fellow passenger on a railroad train, as they glided along tlie bank of the Hudson, on© day last winter. “Ice saw," laoonically responed the other, as he glanced out on the river toward the ungainly object indicated. “I supposed you did see, or I should not have asked the question. You saw, and I saw, too, but I did not know what it was.” “I said it was an ice saw.” “Very true, it is rather an eye sore, disliguring, as it does, that pretty sheet of ice, which makes such an excellent sweep for the ice-boats to sail on, but still I am in the dark as to what it is. ” “I didn’t say eye sore. I said an ice saw. ” "Oh, a nice saw. Well, perhaps it is. Just depends on the way one looks at it. Thank you. Looks as though we were going to have a thaw.**— Texas i:\fting.s.