Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1899 — Quite Safe There. [ARTICLE]

Quite Safe There.

A qnaint-looking member of the, Quaker persuasion recently administered the following apt rebuke to a certain country parson more celebrated for Ida passionate love of fox-hunting than for his pulpit powers. “Friend, thou’rt clever at fox-hunt-ing, 1 believe?” “There are few men in the countryside who can excel me at the sport,” observed the parson, proudly. “Nevertheless, friend, if I were a fox I would hide where thou woMldst never find me.” “Pray where would you hide, sir?” was the Interested query. “I would hide In thy study, friend.”