Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — He Wanted No Sympathy. [ARTICLE]

He Wanted No Sympathy.

The milkman gathered himself up from the ruins of his demolished wagon, scraped the whitish-gray mud from his clothing, smoothed out the dents in his hat, wiped from his whiskers the dripping fluid that had drenched Ills face when the catastrophe came, gave one glance at the runaway horse ' disappt aring down the street, surveyed the dirty-white puddles that represi nied his stock in trade and turned to the crowd “All I’ve got to say,” he observed, rolling up his coat sleeves and speaking in the tone of a man accustomed (o calling cattle, “is that the first son-of-a-gun that says a word about its being no use crying over spilt milk is going to get his blamed head punched. ”