Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — Mean Trick. [ARTICLE]

Mean Trick.

Not long ago, relates the Kansas City Journal, the wife of a western Kansas politician asked him to lay aside politics long enough one day to dig the potatoes in the garden. He agreed to do it. After digging for a few minutes he went into the house and said he had found a coin. He washed it oil and it proved to be a silver quarter. He put it in his Jeans and went back to work. Presently he went to the house again and said hb had found another coin. He washed the dirt oft of it. It was a silver half dollar. He put it in his jeans. "I have worked pretty hard,” said he to his wife; "I guess Til take a short nap.” When he awoke he found that his wife had dug all the rest of the potatoes. But she found no coins. It then dawned upon her that she had been “worked.”