Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1887 — WHY HE DIDN'T SHIP THE CORPSE. [ARTICLE]

WHY HE DIDN'T SHIP THE CORPSE.

“Oi say, Terrence, did ye si nd yer brither’s corpse home ter-ther-city yit?” asked one country laborer of.,.another. “Oi did nawt.” “An’ w’y nawl? 1 ” >’ “Ther divil as hez charrudge ov tha frate wuddent lave me sind it oover tha road.” “Tha blaggard! W’y wuz that?” “He tould me tha Prisidint is afther soignin’ er bill, fer previnting raleroods from carryin’ lid-hios cover tha counthree.” ?