Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1891 — He Eats Baby Food Now. [ARTICLE]

He Eats Baby Food Now.

Any able-bodied gentleman in need ot $5 and a reputation for bravery will find it to bis advantage to travel to Hellertown, Lehigh County, Pa. In that classic hamlet there dwells a certain citizen who numbers among his earthly possessions a chestnut filly from Kentucky, a brother who lives in wicked gotham and a valuable set of false teeth, imported from Paris. One day, when the mettlesome filly was feeling unusually jolly, the owner of the teeth took his brother for a drive behind the trotter. Out on the “pike,” three miles from Hellertown Court-House, there is a “road spring.” It was here that the Hellertown man stopped the filly, and while his brother drank of the bubbling waters be removed his “Paris” teeth and laid them on the grass. Just as he was on the point of taking a drink himself the filly started np the “pike” at two-minute clip. Then, before the gentlemen could understand what it all meant, a huge copper-colored snake glided np, and, to the dismay of the select audience, calmly swallowed the “teeth.” Jost what the snake did after insulting his digestive organs the gentlemen are not prepared to say, as they made a hurried exit from the vicinity and followed the filly back to town. In proof that the “snake” story is true the disconsolate owner of the teeth has offered $5 for the retarn of the same, and he now eats baby food.