Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1910 — A Merry Christmas Jest. [ARTICLE]

A Merry Christmas Jest.

An old chronicle contains the follow Ing quaintly worded anecdote: "There was some time an old knight who, being disposed to make himself merry in a Christmas time, sent for many of bls tenants and poor neighbors with their wives to dinner, when having made meat to be set on the table would suffer no man to drinke ■till he that was master over bls wife should sing a caroil; great niceness there was who should be the musician Yet with much adoe. looking ope upon another, after a dry bemme or two, a dreaming companion drew out as much as be dare toward an old sash ioned dirty When having made an end. to the great comfort of the beholders. at iqst it came to the women’s table, when likewise commandment was given that there should no drinke be touched till she that was master over her husband bad sung a Christmas caroil: whereupon they fell all to such a singing that there was never heard such a catterwaling peece of muslcke. Whereat the knight laughed heartily, that it did him balfe as mucbe good as a corner of bls Christmas pie.”.