Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1885 — Enough to Vex a Saint. [ARTICLE]

Enough to Vex a Saint.

“Of all the men I ever hearn tell of, he’s the beaten’ of them all. Last night when he come home to supper he'd been a-drinkin’ beer till he smelt worse than a Dutchman, and I telled him so, and I telled him he oughten to go out and eat with the hogs, and he never said a word, but just sot and sulked. He’s awful tryin’ to my patience! “Well, arter supper he got up and put on his hat. ‘ You ain’t a-goin’ out, be you?’ says I. ‘Yes,’ says be. ‘Where?’ says I. ‘Where ’taint so noisy,’says he. ‘I hope you’ll be arrested !’ says I, and out lie went, leavin’ me that mad I couldn’t eat. ‘ I’ll give you a piece of my mind afore I go to bed,’ says I tq myself, and I sot up till arter midnight, and then I put a shawl over my head and went down to the station-house. ‘Where’s Jim?’ says I to the pleceman. ‘ldunno,’ says he. ‘Ain’t he arrested?’ says I. ‘I dunno,’ says he. ‘Can’t you find out?’ says I. ‘ Yes,’ says he, and he runged up the Central Station, and they said he wasn’t there. Then he runged up the Gratiot Station, and they said he wasn’t there. Then he runged up the Trubble Avenue Station, and they said he was there; so I went down there, and therp was Jim a-locked up in a little bit of a place, “ ‘ So you went and got arrested, did ye?’says I. ‘ Wbat did you do that for ?’ says I. “‘You hoped I would, he, ‘and I didn’t wan ter diserpint ye,’ says he. “Did ye ever hear such sayin’s as that to me, his wife, that’s always a-try-ing to make home pleasant! Oh, he’s enough to vex a saint !”—Detroit Free Press.