Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1886 — Liked the Gravy. [ARTICLE]

Liked the Gravy.

At a meeting of a clerical club in an old New England village the late Rev. Dr. Clarke once read a strenuous and eloquent paper on total abstinence to the delight of all his hearers, says the hostess, who took the first opportunity to tell her husband that she l had brandied peaches for supper, and that it was impossible to make a change at that hour. When the peaches served the essayist, who had the posL of honor at his hostess* rinht hand, seemed to find them remarkably fine, and was persuaded to take a second helping. After a while the lady said to him: “Dr. Clarke, won’t you allow me to give you some more of these peaches?” “Well, really,” said the simple old doctor, “they are delicious, but I think I’ll only take a little more of the gravy.” He who is coatent to livo'on probabilities is afterwards forced to die on imp-probabilities.