Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1859 — ALMOST A BURGLAR CAUGHT. [ARTICLE]

ALMOST A BURGLAR CAUGHT.

A laughable incident occurred here last i Sunday night. One of our young bloods had I been out a wooing until rather a late hour, , and desired to enter his home and creep slv- { ly to bed without letting the family know of i his lite absence. He raised the window noiselesslyl and commenced crawling in; but, as the poet says, “•There’s ma ny a slip Between the the cup and the lip,” So was it also in the case of this young man, for, when he had crawled about half way in, and was congratulating himself on the successful issiue, the windolw came down with a slam, thatlsounded in the deep stillness of the night the “knell of his departed hopes.” The falling window caught him, so that he could neither get out nor in, and the noise awakened the" rest of the family, who, in their bewilderment, thought that burglars were entering the house. The fernales shrieked in their fright, and the males courageously seized whatever they could lay their hantls with which to repel the ruthless invaders. This was an awful- fix for the young “loyver.” He had either to discover his ridiculous: situation, or be hacked into mince-meat iifstanter. He chose the former, and cried out lustily, “Don’t! it’s me! it’s me! ’ His voice was recognized a'nd he was immediately “snaked” in at ll.j expense of .one of his shins. He went, off to bed, w'-fie the others nearly split their v,..{h mirth, the women laughing through their tears. This laughable inci- - dent rem! him such a leEspij that he will not soon attcppt'it again