Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — A Stumbling Block. [ARTICLE]

A Stumbling Block.

To many of the residents of New Eng» land, the final “g” seems as great a stumbling block as Is the letter “h” to some English folk. “Good morning, Uncle Ephraim!’’ said a. passerby one cool morning in early spring to a good old man who was pulling up the weeds in his wife’s flower garden. “Good morning!” responded Uncle Ephraim, In his quavering treble. “It’s a pooty cold mornin’, now ain’t It? I was In the house flxln’ one of our curtings that had fell down till ’most eight o’clock, an’ I hadn’t any idee how cold it was, though I might have told by lookin’ out at the mountings. But when I’d been out here workln’ In my garding a while, I declare my fingers got to feelin’ so cold I had to go in an’ get my mittings!”