WIND AND WATER
Reading edition
When a political stump speaker, from the wild and windy West, after a very high-falutin flight of oratory paused to gulp down two tumblers of ice-water, old Hayseed arose in one of the front benches and called out: “Well, I’ll be durned if this hain’t the fust time I ever see a windmill run by water.”
Which goes well with what we read of a newly elected senator. He was pounding his desk and waving his arms in an impassioned appeal to the Senate.
“What do you think of him?” whispered Senator K——, of New Jersey, to the impassive Senator K——, of Pennsylvania.
“Oh, he can’t help it,” answered K——. “It’s a birth mark.”
“A—what?”
“A birth mark,” repeated K——. “His mother was scared by a windmill.”