Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1889 — Touched a Soft Spot. [ARTICLE]

Touched a Soft Spot.

First Tramp—“ Look, Tom, that is the minister’s house; the window’s open, and all the folks are at church, an’ they don’t keep no dorg, so that we couldn’t have a softer snap.” Second tramp ( with suppressed emotion) —“The. minister’s house, do you say? Ah, Bill, I have been a bold, bad man, but I have never yet robbed the clergy. They are a liard-workin’ lot, an’ their pay is small; besides, some of the tenderest recollections of an innocent boyhood is coupled with my Sunday school (wipes away a tear). But, Bill,' you haven’t got the same feeling in the matter I has; an’if yer’ve made up yer mind to enter the place,' why, I’ll stay outside an’ keep watch, an’ I’ll give a whistle if I see any one cornin’!”— Life .