Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1894 — Just What He Needed. [ARTICLE]

Just What He Needed.

From the Scotchman.

An old woman of a thrifty turn of mind lives in a village far away from any town. Some time ago her husband lay very ill and the doctor had said he had not more than a week to live. The old lady had to go to town to have her husband’s medicine made up, and thinking it would "save her a second long journey, she took the opportunity of buying the cake and wine for the apparently inevitable funeral. On her return home the dying husband in terrogated her thus: “What did you get in th’ toon, ’umman?” “I got yer medicine made up.” “An’ what else?” inquired the invalid. “Weel,” hesitatingly, “as it’s sae far to toon, I thocht I micht as weel buy the cake and wine for the funeral.” “Gie’s a taste, lass.” She cut a piece of cake and gave him a glass of wine. He liked them so much that he asked for more, and finally consuming all the cake and wine he —recovered.