Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1906 — Hang on to the Plow. [ARTICLE]

Hang on to the Plow.

An old English gentleman, a schoolteacher, who some years ago resided In one of the small towns of Ohio, was an agreeable teller of stories, but deemed It beyond bls reputation as a raconteur to tell one that did not surpass any that had preceded it. A farmer, having come to the village, remarked in the presence of his friends that he bad been plowing all the week with four horses, breaking up new ground, and dwelt upon It as being a very big thing. “Pshaw!” said the old Englishman. “That’s nothing. I have seen in England fifty yoke of oxen hitched to one plow.’’ The remark seemed to occasion general surprise. “And,” continued he, “the funniest part of the whole thing was that while the plow was on the top of the hill the leading yoke of oxen was on top of another hill, and the forty-nine l>etween the plow and the leaders were suspended between the two hills. And there was another matter connected with It rather strange. In the course of the day the plowman, becoming rather careless about driving his team, ran into and split a big oak stump. The plow passed safely through the ■pllt, but before the plowman got entirely through It closed up and caught him by the coat tall.” “Did It tear bls coat?" asked a person of inquiring turn. “Not a bit of it,” replied our veracious narrator. “He hung on to the plow handles and pulled out the •tump.”—Buffalo Times.