Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1907 — He Had Waited a Long Time. [ARTICLE]

He Had Waited a Long Time.

Bill Rye, when a young man, once made an engagement with a lady to take her driving. The appointed day came, but at the livery-stable all the horses were taken save one old, shaky, exceedingly gaunt beast Mr. Nye, says Harper’s Weekly, hired it, and drove to his friend’s residence. The lady kept him waiting nearly an hour before she was ready, and then, on viewing the shabby outfit, flatly refused to accompany Mr. Nye. “Why,” she exclaimed, “that horse may die of old age any moment!” “Madam,” Mr. Nye replied, “when I arrived that horse was a prancing young colt’”