Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — Just the Opposite. [ARTICLE]

Just the Opposite.

An Irishman who was employed in the iron works in a Western town was advised by his physician to seek some employment where the labor was less severe, on account of an enlargement of the heart. He proceeded, therefore, to set up a small grocery, which was well patronized by his friends. He was not in the habit of diminishing his prospects of financial success by giving “down weight,” and one afternoon, when a customer asked for a pound of sugar, he added pinch by pinch until the scale barely turned. “Fat,” Inquired the customer, looking up Innocently at his careful weigher, “phwat was it the dochter said was ailin’ ye?” “Inlaargemint av the haart," answered Pat with pride. ’’Well, thin,” said the customer, “it’s tolme ye were changin’ yer doo ther, Fat; the wan that’s tindin’ ye now don’t understhand yer disease, me b’y. Yer haart is gettin’ smaller moiglity fast, an’ it’s in great danger ye are!”