Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — His Vinegar. [ARTICLE]

His Vinegar.

A hurried grocer gave a countryman a jug of coal-oil instead of a jug of vinegar for which he had asked. Several days afterward, when the countryman came back, the grocer said: “My friend, I haie an apology to make to you!” “How so ?” “Why, the other day when you were in here I gave you coal-oil instead of vinegar.” “Wall, I’ll be blamed es that don’t splain it. When we poured some o’ the stuff on the turnip greens wife ’lowed that it tasted quar’, but I lowed that it was because she had been down with the chills. Yas, an’ I now un’erstan’ er nuther thing. I spilt some on me an’ er minnit airterwards I drapped a lit match on my britches an* 11l be dinged es I didn’t think I’d burn up ’fore I could shuck ’em off. I thought that it wuz the caperinest vinegar I ever seed, but didn’t find nothin’ quar’ in the taste ’cept it wan’ sour er nuff.” —Arkansaw Traveler.