Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1901 — Natural Enough. [ARTICLE]

Natural Enough.

“How did this happen?” asked the Burgeon, as he dressed the wound in the cheek and applied a soothing poultice to the damaged eye. “Got hit with a stone,” replied the patient. “Who threw It?” “My—my wife,” was the reluctant an•wer. “Hum; it’s the first time I knew a woman to hit anything she aimed at,” muttered the surgeon. “She was throwing at the neighbor’s hens,” explained the sufferer. “I was behind her.”