Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1912 — WIT and HUMOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WIT and HUMOR

HER MEMORY FINALLY FAILED "' «-v. Sally Sweeny, Young Peasant, Resorted to Novel Manner of Recalling Message of Mistress. J. M. Callwell, in “Old Irish Life,” tells a story of a young peasant woman, Sally Sweeny, who ÜBed to do shopping for her family when they lived in the country. She could neither read nor write, yet she never made a mistake with any of the messages that were intrusted to her. Once, however, her memory did fail her. One of the ladies of the family had ordered her to bring back a yard of some color of satin, and the unaccustomed word slipped out of Sally’s recollection. But she did allow herself to be beaten without an effort to recall the word, so she went into the principal shop in Galway still thinking hard. “What is’t that ye call the divil,” she asked, “whin it’s not divil that ye say to him?” 1 “Is it satan you would be meaning?” asked the astonished draper. “The very wan,” said Sally delightedly. “An ye’ll give me a yard.”