Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1887 — The Nurse and the Wolf. [ARTICLE]

The Nurse and the Wolf.

A Nurse, who was trying to quiet a Crying Child, threatened, unless it hushed up pretty quick, to throw it to the Wolf, who is proverbially supposed to be lingering at the door of the poor. It happened that there was a Wolf prawling around in the vicinity, and hearing the expression of the Nurse took it in dead earnest and waited a long time for the child to be thrown to him. His own supper was waiting for him, yet he stayed, believing that a change of diet would be good for him. Friends came along and requested him to dine ■with them, but he declined. He had an engagement to attend a banquet that night with some congenial Wolves, but he let the hour slip by. And there ■were the customary free lunches at the saloons —he skipped them all. Finally, when it was too late to get a bite anywhere, and the Child wasn’t thrown out to him according to promise, he tumbled. There probably never was a Wolf so mad and hupgry as he was when he finally sneaked off home in the gray of the morning, cursing the perfidy of woman. Moral—Never throw a proffered lunch, over your shoulder in anticipation of a square meal.— Texan Sijtings.