Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — Condemned to Wear Wooden Collar. [ARTICLE]

Condemned to Wear Wooden Collar.

A man who had been condemned to wear a wooden collar was seen by some of his friends. “What have you been doing,” they asked him, “to deserve this?” “Oh, nothing,” he replied; “I only picked up, an old piece of rope.” And you are to be punished thus severely,” they asked, “for merely picking up an end of rope?” “Well,” answered the man, .“the fact is that there was a bullock tied to the other end.”—Herbert A. Giles, in "History of Chinese Literature.”