Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — HE STOLE MILK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HE STOLE MILK.

Jack Avoided Detection for a Very Long Time. The milkman who supplied Bloomfield, hi. J., families living in the neighborhood of Lawrence and Harlow streets, is happier than he was a week ago. His customers suspected then, that he was giving them short measure. Although he put in an extra gill as an evidence of good faith, there was still a deficiency in many of the tin pails that were set out on the front stoops at night to await his coming in the early morning. The police were asked to find out who was rushing the lacteal growler. They tried to do so, but they failed. A few mornings ago the culprit was discovered. The rea’der might surmise by the appearance of his mouth and tongue, conspicuous in the picture, that he has

a capacity for milk in large quantities. He is a big Newfoundland dog, and he belongs to Airs. Moffatt, who lives in Harlow street. Mrs. Moffatt was looking out of the window early in the morning, when she saw Jack hiding behind a dumb of bushes and with a most interesting expression watching the milkman filling the tin pail on the stoop of the Rev. Mr. Winau’s house. When the milkman left Jack trotted over to the stoop, picked up the pall with his teeth, carried it a short distance, set it down, took off the lid, and drank nearly all the milk. Then he put on the lid and carried the pail back to the stoop. Mrs. Moffatt told the clergyman’s family about it, and soon the neighbors and the milkman all knew about the milk drinker.

JACK.