Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1894 — Babies and Harns. [ARTICLE]

Babies and Harns.

A happy young father and mother on a farm in New Hampshire had been enjoyingthe looks of their firstborn son for a week, when their large new barn was burned. A year or two later, when this little toy’s first, little sister was a week | old, th e big and handsome f>arn bmlt i to replace the first oue caught fire, and went down also. A second little sister arrived later on, on the fourth of November, and ■ the next day, while the eldest little bdy wasplaying with fireworks, the third barn was burned. Years went on, and the farmer had built two big barns for his increasing needs, when one fine day he was told that lie was the father of twins. For a moment he stood dumb; then he laughed, and said: "Good! that’s the wav it ought to be. I’ve got two barns now —a barn | to burn for each twin. Twins is right.” But at last accounts barns and twins were both prospering, and the farmer believes that his luck has improved.