People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — Rather Unlucky. [ARTICLE]

Rather Unlucky.

“Ever sit down at a table where there were just thirteen?” asked the man in the shaggy ulster. “Once.” replied the man with the white spot in his mustache. “Well, you never observed that any bad luck followed it, did you?” “Why—haw—yes. Bad luck for most of the thirteen.” “Any of them die?” “Not that I know of. Never heard of any of them dying.” “Not enough victuals to go around?* queried the man with the snub nose. “ Who’s talking about victuals? There wasn’t any victuals.” “I thought you said you sat down to a table where there were thirteen persons?” “That’s what I said. The table was in a lawyer’s office. It was a meeting of creditors. There were twelve of them. I was the other man.” There was a long pause, and then the man with the baggy trousers inquired: “In what way did the meeting prove unlucky, if I may ask?” “None of ’em ever got a blamed cent out of me,” answered the man with the white spot in his mustache, heaving a deep sigh.—Chicago Tribune.