Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1917 — Strained the Glass. [ARTICLE]

Strained the Glass.

The oldest- inhabitant of Little Cockleton possessed a telescope he never used. “Why don’t you make use of it sometimes, James?” asked a neighbor. “It used to be a good *n,” Sa’d James sorrbwfully, “but it’s broke now.” “Broken?” asked the neighbor. “Who did that?” “Well,” said James, “it was such a good ’n that I could see the old church steeple five miles away quite plain, but Joseph, the scoundrel, got the lend of it and tried to make out the steeple of th e Methody chapel more’n ten miles away. He tried and tried and couldn’t, so that strained my glass, an’ it’s never been right since. Drat Joseph !” ’ 4 #