Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — 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 his face when the oatastrophe came, gave one glance at the runaway horse disappearing down the street, surveyed the dirty-white puddles that represented 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 to ealling oattle, “is that the first son-of-a-gun that says a word about its being no use crying over split milk is going to get his blamed head punohed. ”