Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1885 — Could Faint for Himself. [ARTICLE]

Could Faint for Himself.

Two cronies were walking together along the streets of a Scottish town rather early in the day. They were in search of their morning dram, but were without the means to procure it. As they passed a public house one of them suddenly fell down on the pavement in a faint, whereupon his companion rushed into the convenient barroom shouting for help. Of course, a glass of brandy was immediately procured for the unconscious man, and as his comrade knelt in the act of administering the grateful cordial he whispered to his patient to leave a little in the glass for him. “Ah, na.” said the now reviving man, after he had drained the glass to the last drop; e can faint for yer sei’!”