Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1920 — Water on the Knee. [ARTICLE]

Water on the Knee.

A certain man of rather a waggish disposition, contends that his wife has no imagination. At dinner one night he chanced to mention a tragic circumstance, which he had read in the evening paper on his way home. A passenger on a transatlantic steamer had fallen overboard in mid-ocean, and had never been seen again. “Was he drowned?” asked the wife. “Oh, no,” answered the husband, “but be sprained his ankle, I believe !”