Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — Colonel Solon’s Cistern Water. [ARTICLE]

Colonel Solon’s Cistern Water.

“I’ve bin aworkin’ like all possessed to-day,” said Colonel Solou last evening, as he borrowed a pipe from the local editor. “ So, what you been doing#” “ My wife, ye see, has the rheumatics an’ ’twas wash day, so she sez to me, sez she, Solomon, tbe water in the cistera is out an’ I can’t wash without cistern water, an’ mv rheumatics is so bad that I can’t fetoh' it. Sufflshently profundicated, sez I Sally, I’D bring tbe jwater. An’ - 1 brought twenty-five pails full of water from my nabor’s well an’ poured into that cistern, an’ then I pumped every r blamed drop out for the wash in.’ Mitey hard work.” “Why in the name of common sense didn't you put the water in the tubs instead of turning it into the cistern, and then pumping it out again?” said the editor. “ Coz,” said the Colonel, bristling up, “ eoz in the name of common sense, she had to have cistern water to wash with, yer darned fool.”— OU City Derrick