Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1899 — What a Memory! [ARTICLE]

What a Memory!

One rainy day in spring an old Yorkshire fisherman returned to his native village after an absence of fifteen years, and fearfully sought the house which sheltered his deserted wife. Entering without knocking, he seated himself near the open door, took a long and vigorous puli at his dirty clay pipe, and nodded jerkily to ‘t’owd woman.” •‘Mornin’, Maria,” he said, with affected unconcern. She looked up from the potatoes she was peeling, and tried'to utter the scathing tirade she had daily rehearsed since his departure; but It would not come. “Ben,” she said. Instead, once more resuming her work, “bring thesen o’er to t’ fire, an’ Ah’ll darn that hole 1* thy, jersey. Ah meant doin’ t’ day tha went away, but summat put me off!” —Stray Stories. A man is before the probate court today to be examined as to his sanity. The evidence against him Is conclusive: he told a lady friend that be did nos like her minister.