Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1891 — Spotting a Smell. [ARTICLE]

Spotting a Smell.

Jfo-wAEm-k World. He was walking along Sackett street, near Court, in Brooklyn, when he suddenly stopped and sniffed the air in all directions. His nose had found a familiar odor,and pretty soon he traced jt to a certain chimney and ascended the steps of a house and rang the bell. “Excuse me, ma’am,” he said to the woman who came to the door, “but do you keep a cook?” “Yes, sir,” she replied, as she looked at him in a puzzled way. “Is she in at the present time?” “Yes, sir, but she doesn’t want to see no agents.” “Oh, I'm no agent, ma’am. You just call Vo the cook through the speaking tube that that the water has all boiled out of her potatoes, and that the said potatoes are burning. Smell ’em very plainly in the

street. Happens every day at my own house. Cook is probably reading a novel, or got a celd iff the head. That’s all, ma’am—no trouble at all—good evening.”