Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — Caring a Hiccough. [ARTICLE]

Caring a Hiccough.

—rm Mr. Smithkin had heard that a sure cure for a hiccough was a severe frght. One evening, smoking at his fireside after supper, he was taken with a hiccough which continued in spite of all his efforts to check it. Presently he got up suddenly from his chair, and called out in alarm to Mrs. Smithkin: “I’ve lost my watch! Pve lost my ivatch!” “John Smithkin!” said she, “what do you mean? Why, you haint done any such a thing. Here’s your watch all right, in your vest pocket.” “Don’t you think I know that?” said Mr. Smithkin. I ‘l was jfist giving myself a severe fright, you know, tc stop the hiccoughs!”