Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1890 — Nobody Died for Her. [ARTICLE]

Nobody Died for Her.

Some years ago a sober, .zealous Connecticut parson went to visit a family in his neighborhood who were not so well versed in the rudiments of divinity as they might have been. When he arrived at their home he thought it proper to catechise them a little and with Mary, their eldest daughter, a girl about eighteen, buxom and blooming as a May morning, and whose charms had smitten the village swains with an epidemic. “Well, Mary.” said tbe parson, “I shall begin with you; come, tell me who died for you. ” Mary, with a flush on her cheeks, replied: “Why, nobody, as I knows on.” The parson, rather surprised at her answer, repeated his question with increased zeal. “Mary, I say, tell me who died for yon?” Poor Mary, rather irritated at the inquisitive parson, again replied, “Why, nobody, sir; there was Bob Dawson lay bed-rid for me about six months, but folks say he got about again.” —New York Mercury.