Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1912 — FEARED FOR HIS CHARACTER [ARTICLE]

FEARED FOR HIS CHARACTER

Disciple of Bacchus Evidently Real- ' ized That Circumstances Looked Bad for Him. \ Harry was a faithful servant of a large cotton planter whom he called, after the manner of slavery days. M’Sam (Marse Sam). At stated in* tervala Harry was wont to get gloriously drunk; and one night in the fall, after a day in town, the mules hitched to hie-wagon drew up before the' lot of the plantation, with Harry p*ostrate and snoring In the bottom of the wagon. Here one of his numerous progeny, a hoy named Job, discovered him, and unable to awaken his father, or to secure any assistance from Harry’s disgusted wife, he appealed to the planter, who had the mules unhitched, covered Harry with a blanket and with his own hands dragged the wagon under a shed. Next morning Harry woke haslly and sat up, rubbing his eyes. "Job!” he cried aloud; “hurrah here, Job!” and when Job had come under the shed, “How come I here?” Job sulkily explained how it had happened. —, “Did M’Sam pull 'me under here?” asked Harry in dismay. "Gret Lordy, J feared he t’nk I mus’ be drunk!” — Kansas City Star.