Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — Fools and Their Bets. [ARTICLE]

Fools and Their Bets.

The story recently printed that a fool, to win a bet, put a billiard ball in his mouth, and it took a surgical operation and the removal of five teeth to get it out, reminds Father Beck of a simpleton he once knew whose first name was John. One day John was with some girls who were having fun putting hen’s eggs in their mouths, and John declared that he could put a goose egg in his mouth, and the girls dared him to. John was brave, and wouldn’t take a dare, and by dint of perseverance he got the goose egg In, but when he tilled to take It out it wouldn’t come, and when he was threatened with lockjaw, the girls got scared and hustled John off to a doctor. The doctor, after diagnosing the case, doubled up his fist and with an under cut belted John, one on the chin. John was relieved, but the egg never amounted to much as a goose afterward. We are sorry to relate, says Father Beck, that the experience did not do much good in curing John of the silly habit. He kept on biting off more than he could chew for the remainder of his life.— Kansas City Journal.