Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1891 — A Familiar Proverb. [ARTICLE]

A Familiar Proverb.

Ancasus, King of the Leleges in Samos (an island in the Grecian Archipelago) planted a vineyard; and so heavily did he oppress his slaves, that one of them, it is said, prophesied to him that he would never live to taste the wine thereof. When the wine was made, tne king sent for his slave, and said: “What do you think of your prophesy now?” The slave made answer, “There’s many a slip ’twirt the cup and the lip.” The words were scarcely uttered when Ancseus was informed that a wild boar had broken into his vineyard, and was laying it waste. Anoseus, setting down the cap untasted, hastened to attack and drive out the boar, but was killed in the encounter. “I began keeping a diary this year—an honest diary—and I wrote it in French, but I’ve dropped it.” “Why?" "My wife has began taking French lessons.”