Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1913 — How's This for Mud? [ARTICLE]

How's This for Mud?

Of all the yarns that ever earn* down the line regarding deep mud. the following should be entitled to the blue ribbon. It happened in where mud originated, / A man was walking along the roadside one summer day and noticed a fairly good looking hat out in the road. Reaching out with his cane, he gave it a cut and was startled to hear a voice exclaim: “Here, what the deuce are you doing?" Then he made the astonishing 41acovery that the owner of the headpiece was under the het, up te hie ears In mud. "Great heavens!" exclaimed the man who had hit the hat "Is that mud ns deep aa that?" "De«#!” cried the victim. “Why. man alive, I'm standing ea a load es hay!"