FROM THE COUNTRY PRESS.
Samples of the Journalistic Fodder Which Is Handed Out for Daily Consumption
Among the Children of Nature Who Inhabit Some of the
Quiet Places in the Tall Timbers.
'LIGE GOUDY'S CORN.
'Lige Goudy, a well-known and popular passenger engineer, who lives at Seymour, is raising some corn this year. A few days ago a gentleman called at Mr. Goudy's house to see him, and was informed that he had gone out to look at his corn.
The gentleman went down to the field, which he found grown over with weeds of a gigantic growth, with a sickly looking stalk of corn peeping forth here and there. The gentleman looked across the field, but could not see the proprietor thereof.
Finally the man climbed upon the fence and shouted:
"Oh, 'Lige!"
To his surprise, a reply came from among the weeds near by, in the familiar voice of Mr. Goudy.
The gentleman took a second look, but could not quite locate 'Lige, and after a moment's hesitation said:
"Shake a weed, so I can tell where you are!"—Exchange.