Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — The Tramp and the Farmer. [ARTICLE]

The Tramp and the Farmer.

A tramp who was making his slow and Bainful 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 bo jailed for a vagabond. He was driving away. When the poor but honest man, wh ! would have boen willing to take a place as casbier of a bank if he could get It, felt to cry but In his sorrow. “Alas! but how hard-hearted the world 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 druwned in the stream below, and as soon as he recovered from his astonishment, the wayfarer patted himself on the back and exclaimed: “Ah! there, I eter, 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.