Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1887 — She Knew the Signs. [ARTICLE]

She Knew the Signs.

Y»nth’s Companion. ■ . A traveler put up for the night with a simple-minded old couple in a lonely farm house. As he rode up to the dbor ho heard the old lady say, in a tone of deep conviction: "There! I knowed sdmebody’d come before night, for I dropped my fork on the floor this morning and it sruck straight up. Then I dropped the dish-cloth at noon—another sure sign of company.” In entering the house the visitor carelessly struck hie foot against the step and came near falling. “Ah,” said the old lady quickly, “which toe did you stub, the right o the left?” "The right,” was the reply. “That’s good; it’s a sure sign you’re going where you’re wanted. Pa, shoo that rooster off the fence. If he crows there it will rain before morning.” A little boy suddenly ran into the room, cryingout: "Oh, grandma, look! Here’s a copper I found in the road. ” “I’mnot abit surprised. Don’t you remember. Tommy, that you dreamed of finding a nestot hen’s eggs last night? I told you then that you’d find some money before a week.” A young woman was washing on a porch at the back of the house, and the old lidy suddenly cried Out:. "There, there, Susan; if you haven’t splashed, some, suds over all the front of your dres&! And if you dbu’t get a drunken husband for it I’m wonderfully mistaken. I’ve known that sign to come true often and often. But you can keep it from coming true by hanging all the clo'heson the line wrong side out, and you’d better do it.” So Susan did, as the traveler noticed to his great amusement.