Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1900 — IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE. [ARTICLE]

IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

When a Man Is Insolent He Should Bet Sure His Master la Deaf. One Sunday a jehu from London had driven Into Leighton Buzzard to see a felloxv jehu, and, after several pints of ale, they stood at the stable ]door catching flies and comparing the vices anti virtues of their respective masters. “I can’t say nothink when my boss abaht,” said the town man. “The slightest word from me an’ ’e jumps dahn Bay throat, spur an’ all, an’ gallops my lights aht.” Z y - ' y, ‘•Poof!” said the countryman. “W’y don’t yer talk serious to ’im? Pile it on thick, bor. They always caves la quick es yer wop It Into ’em. 1 ' The toxvnmamstarted in amazement. “ ’Ere, look ’ere; that’s my guvner acomin’ noxv. Now yon ’old tight an’ listen.” The master, a grave-looking man, approached; and, suavely speaking to his coachman, gaxe orders for the carriage to be ready at 6 o’clock. “All right, old cock!” replied the coachman; “you shut up on that lay double quick; I knows my biz, I do; an’ if you come pokin’ yer ugly nose in ’ere a-Sundays, wen it’s my day off, I’ll pull it.” „ The master regarded him interrogatively for a moment; then. Inclining his head gravely in aceptance of his coachmah’s xvords, he turned on his heel and walked away. The toxvnman pondered long on his way home, and some time later, xvhen his master sjjoke to him about some trifle lie let fly all hissing hot In almost the very xvords his friend had used. Whereupon his master landed him one between the eyes and then took him by the seat of the sou! and sxvept the stableyard with him, after which he threw him into the hayloft to reconsider the matter. When the unfortunate man again met his friend he recounted his experience, and the latter scratched his chin solemnly as lie remarked: “Well, ye see, bor. ye have to be.careful. Ye must knoxv yer man, like. Fur instance, my guvner. ’e’s deaf, an’ I s’pose yourn ain’t. Anyways ye must knoxv yer man, James; ye must know yer man.”—Modern Society.