Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1898 — A Friend in Need. [ARTICLE]

A Friend in Need.

A stranger, walking along a country road, met an Irishman, who was holding a ram by the horns, and the following conversation took place: “Will you hold this ram,” said the Irishman, “while I climb over and 'open the gate from the other side?” “Certainly,” said the obliging stranger f as he seized the ram by the horns. “Thanks,” said the Irishman, when he got to the other side, “the vicious brute attacked me about an hour ago, and we have struggled ever since. As long as you stand before him holding his horns, he can’t hurt you. Farewell, I hope you will be as lucky In getting away as I have been.”