Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1917 — Too Many “White Hosses." [ARTICLE]

Too Many “White Hosses."

Addressing a woman’s welfare meeting recently, Mrs. Lloyd George pointed a moral, with a quaintly pathetic little story. It concerned a Yorkshire collier’s wife, who each Saturday made a practice of calling at the pit where her husband worked, with a view to getting him safely home, and, by persuasion and tact, preventing him getting to much drink en route. The poor woman, however, was fain to confess that-she seldom succeeded, and asked why, she replied as follows: “Aw, ye see, lady, Ah might get Bill all reight past t’ White Hoss, but, don’t ye see, lady, theer’s th’ King’s Head, an’ t’ Brahn Coo, an’ t’ Blue Pig—seven other White Hosses, so to speyke —afore Bill gets dahn that haws-mile to ahr haase.”