Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — Reflections. [ARTICLE]

Reflections.

His face would have stopped a clock. But how can one wonder at it when one learns that he was a wandering lecturer? Anyway, no one had even seen anything approaching the face that he hauled into Puddle-in-the-Clay one wet and muddy November night and set up in the town hall, allowing words—calculated to make every drinker of anything stronger than barleywater at ohce reform and spend the rest of his existence in sackcloth and ashes —slide out of the hole in the middle of it. “Yes, my dear brothers,” said the weird looking person, “for more than forty years I have shunned the glass.” “And I bloomin’ well believe yer, guv’nor,” said a loud and hearty voice from the middle of the audience. “If I’d a face like yours I wouldn’t never look in a pall of water even.” —London Ideas.