Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1883 — The Next Question. [ARTICLE]

The Next Question.

In Scotland they have narrow, open ditches, which they call sheep-drains. A man was riding a donkey one day acro s a sheep-pasture, but when the animal came to the sheep-drain he -would not go over it. So the man rode him back to a short distance, turned him around and applied the whip, thinking, of course, that the donkey, when going at the top of his speed, would jump the drain before he knew it. But not so. When the donkey got to the drain he stopped all of U sudden, and the man went over Mr. Neddy’s head. No sooner had he touched the ground than he got up, and, looking his beast straight in-the face, said, “Verra weel pitched; but then boo are ye going to get ower yersel ?”