Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1887 — A Good Opportunity. [ARTICLE]

A Good Opportunity.

The deacon had been threatening to repair that well-curb for the last thirteen years, hut something had always occurred to prevent. He was not, therefore, greatly siirprised one day when the boards gave way as he was hauling up the bucket, and he found himself going ior the b Atom. He bumped, around a spell, dodged the bucket a--if followed-after, and finally brought up in good shape with his feet under him, and the watt r up to his chin. The well -was forty feet, deep, and tin* house rive rods away; but nevertheless-, the deacon called Ir • wife by name about 3,000 times before lie got tired of playing on that string, and began abusin- her relatives clear Lack for seven generations. He had dropped this and was threatening to mortgage the farm and run away with the Widow Taylor, when his wife appeared at the well and called out: “Deacon, are you down there?” “Of course I am, and have been for the last three hours!” he veiled. “Well I thought so, but I was busy and couldn’t look. Sav, deacon. being as you are down there, you’d better stir around and look for that table-spoon which slipped out of my hand the day Joel Skinner’s barn got afire!”