Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — The Lazy Sexton. [ARTICLE]

The Lazy Sexton.

Here Is the story of a gravedigger who, after hard toil at a grave, found all his labor In vain owing to the soil slipping and almost filling in the grave again. After Indulging in such language as a church sexton might reasonably use, he got a bright idea. Placing his cap and jacket near the edge of the grave aond hiding bls spade, he forthwith proceeded to hide himself. f

In a few minutes up came a visitor to the graveyard. Seeing the fallenin grave and the cap and jacket, he raised an alarm that the sexton was buried alive. Brawny arms and spades were soon forthcoming, and in a short time the grave was once more dug out, but no sexton was found. Their perplexity gave way to indignation when the sexton emerged from a clump of trees with a pleased grin on his face and thanked them I