Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1902 — Unexpected Advice. [ARTICLE]

Unexpected Advice.

Some time ago a man presented himself l>efarc the Liverpool magistrates with the following tale: "Me name Is Patrick O’Connor an’ I lives at street, an’ I kapes hens In my cellar, but; the water pipe Is burst, an’ my hens are all drowned." "Well, my good man, we can do nothing for you; you bad better npply to tlio water company,” wns nil Che advice be got v A few days later the same mau appeared with precisely the same tale. "You were here a few days ago, and we advised yon to go to the water company. Did you do so?" “I Old, yer honors." "And what did they say to you?” “They told me to kape ducks!"—Lon don Tit-Rit*.