Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1886 — A Coincidence. [ARTICLE]

A Coincidence.

A stranger who arrived at Sioux City was met at the depot by a rattling big fellow, half drunk and in fighting humor, who stopped him and said; “Stranger, are you from Omaha?” “Yes, sir.” “Then prepare.” “For what?” “To take the biggest licking a white man ever got. I took a solemn oath an hour ago to lick the first chap who arrived here from Omaha?” The stranger “peeled” without another word and sailed in, and in three minutes he had taken the sand out of the big fellow. “Stranger, why didn’t you tell me?” asked the victim, as he wiped his bloody nose on the rim of his hat. “Tell you what?” “That you was a hitter.” “Oh, tiiere was no use in that. As soon as the train entered thd suburbs I made up mv mind to lick the first man I met after leaving the car, and you happened to be the one.” —New York Stax.,