Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1901 — Couldn’t Be Mistaken. [ARTICLE]

Couldn’t Be Mistaken.

An artist who died some years back had a fine physique and the appearance of a portly, well-to-do farmer. He was one day standing at a railway station, when a cattle dealer approached him and said: “Man, ye’re a good-looking chap. I’ll wager noo ye’ll weigh aboot fowerteen stane.” “You are quite correct." “Aye, I howt soa. Ah’m nivver varry far wrung, for I’m the best judge o’ cattle in t’ county .’’—Tidbits.