Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1906 — All that Was Coming. [ARTICLE]

All that Was Coming.

Theresa was a muh of unusually mulish disposition. She belonged to Jean Turcotte, a Frenchman possessed of a truly remarkable fund of patience; but he needed it all, for Theresa was not only a beast of burden, but a burdensome beast. If Turcotte wished to go up-hill, Thelesa invariably felt impelled to go down. If Turcotte yearned to ride la the shade, nothing but sunshine would do for Theresa. If the Frenchman expressed a wish to go forward, the mule was immediately seized with a desire to “crawfish” in the opposite direction. Yet Turcotte bore with her for six long years. Finally, however, Theresa, balking at a time when she was weighted down with two bags of lime, hacked off the dock into deep water, and forever vanished from sight. , '“Theresa Turcotte,” breathed the Frenchman, fervently, as he leaned over the edge of the wharf to shake his fist at the rising bubbles, “I hope for once that you got your mos’ complete satisfy.” _