Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — Catling Tom. [ARTICLE]

Catling Tom.

A man living in a northern town was startled about four o’clock one morning by hearing the knocker on his front door being used most vigorously. Hastily jumping out of bed, he threw up the window, and, fearing that the house was on fire or that some dire calamity had happened, anxiously inquired what was the matter. “Oh, it’s all right,” was the reply, coolly vouchsafed by a burly youth below. “I was to call Tom, who lives across the road, and, as he hadn’t got a knocker on his door, I thought you wouldn’t mind me using yours to wake him up. You needn’t trouble to come down. I think I’ve roused him.” And, sure enough, he had, and half the street as well.