Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — When He Came Home. [ARTICLE]

When He Came Home.

i '‘Why, Jeremiah Brown!” exclaimed Mrs. Brown, as her husband returned •from a short railway journey, “is this you alive and in the flesh?” “Why, in course it’s me,” replied Mr. Brown, testily; “ain’t this the time when I said I’d be back?” “And you ain’t been in no accident and got killed?” “Do I look as if I had?” “And you ain’t lost both legs and both arms?” “No, I ain’t.” “Not even one leg or one arm, or an eye?” “No.” “And you didn’t so much as get hurt enough so as you can sit in the house and not work for a month or so?” “How many times have I got to tell you there ain’t nothin’ happened?" “Well, you do beat all! There you went and paid money for an accident insurance ticket just before you left and you haven’t done anything to get money out of it. The money just wasted for nothing! And you might just as well have made SI,OOO if you’d only got killed. Nice manager you are!”