Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1890 — Curing a Hiccough. [ARTICLE]

Curing a Hiccough.

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! I’ve lost: my watch!” “John Smithkin!” said she, "what do you meanP Why, you haint done any suoh a thing. Here’s your watch all right, in your vest pocket.” “Don’t you think I know that?” ■aid Mr. Smithkin. “I was just giving myself a severe fright, you know, te step the hiccoughs!”