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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
December
Year
1885
Copyright
Public Domain
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As told at the Methodist ehurch Priday night it is as follows: "There was a marrieil c-ouple with half a dozen children and only one bed. The whole family slept on that b(;d - and were so thick that ono couldn't turn over unless all did. So when anvone got tired sleoping on om' side he"d say, 'turn' - and over the wliole family went. They fot so usrd to it that even when they eard the word turn' in theirsleep they would bustle over. One day the old man was lishing on a log bridge over the rivcr. The sun was Bot and the flsh wa'n't biting,and hefell asleep balanced on the log. One of the boys saw him and thonght he would tty a joke, and halloood out Tuin?' Over the old man went kerflop into the water. Now I want the temperance men to halloo Turn!'until the anti-mon who are asleep on the bridge over the prohibition river

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat