Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1887 — An Unexpected Pleasure. [ARTICLE]

An Unexpected Pleasure.

The children of a certain school were instructed to write compositions on tho subjects of “An Unexpected Pleasure,” the occasion being a public examination. There was a large attendance of ladies and gentlemen, and many compositions were read, but none of them created as much surprise as that of a little girl. It was to the effect that a man and his wife had long desired to have children to play with, but they never had any. The husband went off on a trip, but did not get back for five years. When he entered the house he found two little babies. “This,” concluded the composition, “was an unexpected pleasure to the good husband.”