Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1889 — He Was Settin’ on ’Em. [ARTICLE]

He Was Settin’ on ’Em.

Not long since Mrs. H called on an old friend, Avliom slie found in a most melancholy mood. “Laws! Mrs. Mournful,” she exclaimed, “what on airth air you thinkin’ about ?” “Nothing else irx the world but my poor dead husband. He was such a devoted man —always bringing home his little kindnesses to me. I couldn’t help thinking, just now, when I heard Mrs. Brown’s sassiges sizzing, about what poor Mr. Mournful used to bring to me. I was fond of sassiges. and he hardly eversomedever came home in his life without fetching me a sassige in his pocket. He was very fond of eggs hisself, and would occasionally fetch a few for hisself. But he was always sure to lay a sassige on the table. Never laid his eggs on the table — never’d think of ’em, and sometimes I’d ask, ‘Simon, where’s your eggs ?’ Just as like as not he’d been a settin’ on ’em!”— St. Louis Magazine.