Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — A Tender Epistle. [ARTICLE]

A Tender Epistle.

Mrs. Demming asked Matilda, the house servant: “What dreadful scratching is that out in the kitchen ? It must be the dog trying to get in. I never heard anything like it in my life.” ‘‘Dat’s no dog scratchin’ de doab. Dat’s de cook writin’ a lub letter to her honeysuckle, who works down in de Austin ice factory.” —Texas Siftings.