Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Always the Same Answer. [ARTICLE]
Always the Same Answer.
A witty individual one morning wagered that he would ask the same question of fifty different persons and, receive the same answer from each. The wit went to the first one, then to another, until he had reached the number of 'fifty. £ And this is how he won the bet. He whispered, half-audlbly, to taoh: “I say, have you heard that Smith has failed?* “What Smith?" queried the whole fifty, one after another,, and it was decided that the bet had been fairly won
