Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1912 — Poet Meets Poet. [ARTICLE]

Poet Meets Poet.

A North Missouri farmer whose hog was killed by a train wrote to the company’s claim agent for a settlement, says a writer in the iolumbia Statesman. He penned his communication thus: “Dear Sir: My razorback strolled down your track a week ago Your twenty-nine came’ do>vn the line and snuffed his life away. You can’t blame me, the hog, you see, slipped through a eat'tle gate; so kindly pen a check fdr ten, the debt to liquidate.” He received the following reply: “Old twenty-nine came down the line and killed your hog, we know; but razorbacks on railroad tracks quite often meet with woe. Therefore, my friend, we cannot send the cheek for which' you pine Just plant the dead, place o’er his head, ‘Here lies a foolish swine.’ ”