Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1890 — Circumstances Alter Cases. [ARTICLE]

Circumstances Alter Cases.

How gieat a difference the state of our own affairs makes in the way we regard the things that happen in the world! A city man, visiting one summer in the country, was out walking on a dry, hot day. As he passed along the road, he stopped beside a field where a farmer of his acquaintance was busy haying. “Good a|ternoon, Mr. Street,” said the farmer, as the city m n stopped to remove hifpnat and wipe the moisture from his forehead; “pootyhot, aint it.” “Hot! I should think it was. We need a good rain to cool off this parched air.” The farmer dropped his hands in horror. “Rain!” he exclaimed, “rain right here in hayin’ time! Why, what kind of a man be you, Mr. Street? It’s pooty nigh a crime even to think o’ rain ’t such a time as this. ’T’ould ruin the kentry, I tell ye!” The city man felt decidedly rebuked, and went on his way. Two or three days afterward he met the same farmer on the principal street of the shire town, dressed up in his best clothes and engaged in his turn in wiping, with his big red bandana. the drops from his forehead. “My hemlock!” said the farmer, “awful hot, aint it? If we had a few drops o’ rain—big drops, you know—’t might help to keep us fiom bein’ cooked alive.” “Rain!” said the city man; “why, what are you thinking about? You wouldn’t want it to rain right in haying time, would you?” “Oh,” said the farmer, “the case is different now. I’ve got my hay all ini”