Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1887 — He Hit It. [ARTICLE]

He Hit It.

“What’s ginerally kept in a bottle in de ba’n ?” he asked of a butcher on the market. “Gil, liniment, kerosene, poison, and other stuff, including whisky. Did you find a bottle in a barn ?” “Yes, sah.” “And drank the contents?” “Yes, sah.” “And how do you feel?” “Sorter exalted, sah—sorter jist like I was smart ’nuff to skip all de liniments an’ pizen an’ hit de whisky plumb-center.”— Detroit Free Pres*.