Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1907 — A Sense of Duty. [ARTICLE]

A Sense of Duty.

Just before the boat capsized Rees Rees had been boasting of his “practical common sense.” “I am nothing if not a man of prac* teeeal common sense,” he averraL “When there is a difficulty to be solved Rees Rees is the man to solve It.” Then when the boat sank Rees’ fellow excursionist, John Jones, found that the plank to which both clung was unequal to the support of their united weight. At this juncture he remembered his companion’s t>oast. “Prove yewer praeteecal common sense now, Rees!” he pleaded, with true Welsh eloquence. "Eu are a single man, with noboddy dependent on eu. I am married an’ got six shildran. If eu drowns noboddy do suffarr. But if I do drown then there- iss my waife an’ six likkle shildran to starrve, an’ yewer praeteecal common sense do tell en that it iss bettarr for eu to drown thou me. Prove yewer praeteecal common sense, Rees, an’ let go the plank—orr I will push eu off it!”—Dundee Advertiser.