Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1883 — Then He Continued. [ARTICLE]

Then He Continued.

Detroit FreeJtoM. Several men were seated in a Detroit drug store the other day with their feet on the stove and a cigar in each month, when q boy looked in and yelled out: “Some of you had a horse hitched out here!” “I believe I did,” quietly returned one of the sitters. “Well, he’s gone.” “Did he walk off?” “No, a runaway horse came along and upset the cutter and frightened him.” “And did he kiok himself dear of the cutter?” “Yes.” “I supposed he would. How did he start off?” “On a dead run.” “Which way?” “Up Woodward avenue.” “Did he turn in at Montcalm street?” “I guess he did.” “Well he’s probably gone home and will be routo d there somewhere when I go np. Bub, you might draw the cutter to some shop and tell ’em to fix it, and here’s a quarter for you.” The boy went out to piok up the kindlings and invent a way to draw a cutter half a mile on one runner, and the sitter relighted his cigar, got a new brace for his feet, and said: “As I was saying, every sign indicates that this is to be a year of great oonflagations. It sometimes seems as if great calamities moved in waves through the world.”