Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1886 — It Relieved Him. [ARTICLE]

It Relieved Him.

In Mrs. George Ticknor’s hall always stood a most impressive liveried footman, bearing a silver salver on which to receive cards, and showing, usually, no more emotion than the wooden hat-rack. *> But one afternoon, when Mrs. Ticknor was out and the house was very quiet, an amanuensis, copying notes in an up-stairs room, was startled by a series of howls and yells from below. i3he kept at her work, thinking that if the servants in .the kitchen were killing each other it was no business of hers. Soon up canid a maid to ask if she was frightened. She said she was not. “Oh, ye a n’t! "Well, I thought I’d tell ye, mum, that it’s only the footman. "When the folks is out an’the house quiet, he caii’t stand it, and he has to holler. It’s kind o’relievin’to him.”— Youth's Companion.