Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1899 — Quite Safe There. [ARTICLE]

Quite Safe There.

A quaint-looking member of the Quaker persuasion recently administered the following apt rebuke to a certain country parson more celebrated for his passionate love of fox-hunting than for his pulpit powers. “Friend, thou’rt clever at fox-hunt-ing, I believe?” "There are few men in the countryside who can excel me at the sport,” observed the parson, proudly. “Nevertheless, friend, if I were a fox I would hide where thou wouldst never find me.” “Pray where would you hide, sir?” was the interested query. “I would hide in thy study, friend.”