Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1875 — Not My Place. [ARTICLE]

Not My Place.

A dispute having long subsisted in a gentleman’s family between the maid and the coachman about fetching the cream for breakfast, the gentleman one morning called them both before him that he might hear w'liat they had to say, and decide accordingly. The maid pleaded that the coachman was lounging about the kitchen the greater part of the morning, ancl yet was so ill-natured that he would not fetch the cream for her, notwithstanding he saw she had so much to do as not to have a moment to spare. The coachman alleged that it was not his business. “Very well,” said the master; “but pray what do you call your business ?” “To take care of the horses and clean and drive the coach,” replied he. “ You say right,” answered the master, “ and I do not expect you to do more than Ihi reeky ou for; but this I insist on: that every/morning before breakfast yon get the coach ready and drive the maid to the farmer's for milk; and I hope you will allow that to be part of your business.” The coachman ffnd the maid soon after came to terms. —Once a Week. —At one of the Boston schools recently, in answer to the question: “What’s the ’difference between an island and a Continent. and upon which do we live?” a bright little shaver replied: “ The difference is that a continent is much larger than an island, and we live on bread %nd meat and other things.” % —The Boston Globe now comes out and denies that the average New Englander believes- that a buckeye in his pocket will keep rheumatism away.