Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — GOOD ONE ON DOCK WHITTLE [ARTICLE]

GOOD ONE ON DOCK WHITTLE

First Sight of Railway Train Made Him Run Away With Hie Wagon. "Lemme tell you a good one on Dock Whittle," said the waggish mountaineer at the crossroads store. “Last week Dock hitched up the old mare, piled bls old woman an’ the kids into the wagon, an’ took ’em over acrost the mounting to vfrhere the new railroad’s been built, jest to see the kyars. “None of ’em had ever seen a railroad train. Dock, ner the old woman an’ the kids, ner the old mare, either; so Dock he feels sorto uneasy. Thinkin’ he’d be on the safe side, he onhitched the mar? an ’tied her to" a saplin’;" then he went back where the old woman an’ the kids was a-settin‘ in the wagon in the middle of the road. Dock thinks he’ll pull ’em down the road a piece so they kin see better, so he takes hold of the shafts an’ but jest then ‘Hoot! Toot!’ come that train of kyars, an’ jumpin’ Jerushy! Dock run away with the wagon, the old woman an’ the kids began to scream an’ holler, an’ away they went down the side of the mounting, an’ to a-busted ever'think to pieces. “Dock says the old mare was the only one that wasn’t skeered plemb to death, an’ next time he’s goin’ to leave her alone, an’ tfe Jiisself to a saplln’.” —Mack’s National Monthly.