Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1883 — The Wheel and the Wagon. [ARTICLE]

The Wheel and the Wagon.

Upon an occasion one of the front wheels of a wagon became sulky and obstinate, and called out to the other parts of the vehicle: “I am tired of being dragged around as if I liad no mind of my ow n. As the tongue bends I must follow, and I am always" behind it. I not only have a mind of my own, but unless I can hereafter run this business I shall refuse to move.” The driver of the vehicle thought the matter over, and finally told the Wheel to go ahead. “The first thing I shall do is to get out of the dust,” replied the . Wheel, rind it made for the grass. It next decided that it was easier to travel in the meadow than upon the highway, and it balked at every hill and rested so often that little progress was made, and two of the other wheels w'ere finally crowded against the bank and broken. “Alas! that I did not know better!” sighed the Driver, as he jumped down to contemplate the wreck. “One who undertakes to steer a ship from the .cook’s room will surely bring up on the ’beach.” Moral: A house whero the head isn’t boss, wobbles as it runs. —Detroit Free Press.