Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1885 — Watering Stock. [ARTICLE]

Watering Stock.

Jay Gould’s little boy went to visit some country relatives. Early in the morning he arose, and, missing his uncle, asked one of his cousins: “Where’s Uncle Jehez gone?” “He’s gone to water stock,” replied Jabez’s little boy. “What, so early?” exclaimed little Jay Gould. “Why, my pa never waters stock until he goes down town in the city, ’bout 10 or 11 ."—Pittsburgh Chronicle. Death is the liberator of him whom freedom can not release, the physician of him whom medicine can not cure, and the oomforter him whom time can not console.— Colton.