Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — Keeping It Dry. [ARTICLE]

Keeping It Dry.

An old woman of a wealthy New Jersey family was going visiting. The coachman, who had not been in this country long, had just been equipped with a new uniform and a new silk hat. Before they had gone far it began to sprinkle, and the old woman told the coachman to fasten down the side curtains of the wagonette. He drove up to a hitching post beside the road and, dismounting, hung his new hat on the post, and began to fasten the curtains. The old woman noticed his bare head and asked him where his hat was. “01 took it off me head, mum, so as it wouldn’t get wet,” the coachman replied.