Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1885 — How an Infidel Prayed. [ARTICLE]

How an Infidel Prayed.

Hume, the historian, passing one day by tbe back of Edinburgh Castle, where the ground is very swampy and the footpath narrow, inadvertently tumbled into the bog, where he stuck, not b ing able to extricate himself. A washerwoman happened to pass at the time, looked at him, and was traveling on, when be shouted after her to lend him her assistance.-'“Na, na,” replied the woman, “you are Hume, the infidel” “Well, well, no matter,” replied he; “yon know, good woman, yonr Christian charity commands yon to do good even to your enemies.” “Na. I winna,” said she, “unless yon will first repeat tho ,Cteed and the Lord’s Preyer.” Having nc* alternative he was forced to accede to the pious woman's terms. —San Francisco ArgonauL «, \ _ , . U,;. " ri 1 ■ A donkey, laden with salt, was crossing a >,brook. The water diluted tbe sa t and lightened the burden. He communicated his discovery to a brother donkey laden with wooL Tbe latter tried the same experiment, and found his load doable its weight