Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1911 — Why He Carried the Lantern. [ARTICLE]

Why He Carried the Lantern.

A blind man in Khoota (a Caucasian village) came back from the river one night, bringing a pitcher of water and carrying in his hand a lighted lantern. Some one, meeting him, said: "You’re blind! it’s all the same to you whether it’s day or night Of what use to you is a lantern?” “I don’t carry the lantern in order to see the road,” replied the blind man. "but to keep some tool Ilka you from running against mo and breaking my pitcher.”