Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1888 — A Good Opportunity. [ARTICLE]

A Good Opportunity.

Th* doswxjft beeii threatening * paptwr that veil-curb for the Last thir b et* year*, hut aomethmg had always oc' urred to prevent. He was not, therefore, greatly surprised one day when ti*e boards gave way as he was hauling up the bucket, and he found kinmlf going for the bottom. He bumped around a spell, dodged tbs bucket ae ft followed after, arid finally brought np in good shape with hw feel under him, and the water np to bis chin. The well was forty feet deep, and the boose fire rods away; but the deacon called his wife by name about 0,000 times before lie got tired Of playing on that string, and began abusing her relatives clear back for seven generations. He had dropped this ana was threatening to mortgage the farm and run away with the Widow Tavlor, when his wife appeared at the well and called out: "Deacon, are you down there?" “Of course I am, and have been for the lout three hours I" be yelled. “Well I thought so, but I was busy and couldn’t look. Say, deacon, taring as you are down there, you’d better dir around and look for that table-spoon which slipped qut of my band th* day Joel HkinaMfti ban gwt *dr*f