Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — The Tramp and the Farmer. [ARTICLE]

The Tramp and the Farmer.

A tramp who was making his slow and palnfuil way along the king's high road, the shoes he had stolen the day before being a size too small for his feet, was overtaken by a farmer in his wagon. As there was plenty of room in the vehicle the tramp asked for a lift, but the farmer not only refused this slight favor, but boldly told him that he ought to be jailed for a vagabond. He was driving away, when the poor but honest man, wh would have been willing to take *a place as cashier of a bank if he could get it, felt to cry out in his sorrow. “Alas! but how hard-hearted the wt>rld has become! He would have been no worse off by giving me a lift, whilst I—” At that moment team, wagon and farmer went through a bridge to be drowned in the stream below, and as soon as he recovered from his astonishment, the wayfarer patted himself on the back and exclaimed; “Ah! there, Peter, old boy, but don’t you know what’s good for you, though!” MORAL. What may at first appear to be a hard ship often turns out to be a fat take.