People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — Cot a Center Rusn. [ARTICLE]

Cot a Center Rusn.

A good story is told of a lazv and J loquacious farmer whose farm li is | just outs de Worcester. Hj cihed at a neighbor a recently. “Sit down, s.t down!" exclaimed the neighbor. “I.| d n’t know as I ought," repl ed tue farmer; but nevertheless he sat down. After some talk about the crops and. the value of an adjoining piece of ■ ground the farmer said, slowly: “I don't know ks I ought to be sittaig here. 1 came over to see if I could get a ladder; our house is afire.”