Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1904 — For the Cuekoo. [ARTICLE]

For the Cuekoo.

The aggressive man finished his atorj) and regarded na with such a superior, air that we trotted out the little anecdote* about the cuckoo dock. < "Tea, sir,” we concluded, "Just aa he shouted upstairs that It was 12 o’clock the. cuckoo dock cuckooed three times* and the man didn’t have to do a thing but stand there on the stairs and 1 cuckoo nine more to make 12.” We laughed uproariously and congratulated ourselves that the traveler was effectually squelched. "Well, go on,” said he, with some Impatience. , »/| "On where?” we asked. / "On with the story,” he replied. "Why, man,” we expostulated, "that la the story. Don’t you Bee? Just aa he shouted upstairs”— "Oh, rats!” said the man. "Next morning, when the man was going to work, his wife said, ‘Tom, don’t forget to bring home a seidlitz powder.’ ‘What for?’ asked Thomas. ‘Why, for our cuckoo,’ said his wife. ‘I noticed that he had the hiccoughs last night when he struck 12.’ ”