Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1916 — Used the Wrong Cask. [ARTICLE]

Used the Wrong Cask.

A certain jnilkman was in the habit of watering the milk before starting on his rounds in the morning. He is dead now, so we are not telling any trade secret One day, by some unlucky chance, the man omitted to do so, but to his joy he discovered at the first house he called at a huge cask, strongly banded with iron, and filled to the brim with water, the head having apparently just been taken off. Such a good chance of repairing his neglect was too good to be lost, and the milkman had just succeeded in watering the milk satisfactorily when the figure of the master of the house appeared _ln the doorway, and a voice asked sweetly: “Are you sure you’ve put in enough, my man?” Poor John was petrified. “If I were you.” eentinued tha volce. “I should have chosen some other cask. My doctor has ordered me a course of sea water baths, you know, and you have just mixed your milk with salt water. But perhaps your customers like it that way.”