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Show A Narrow Escape. A Kentucky colonel of the old-school old-school had made a proud boast thar he haJn't drunk a glass of water in. 20 years. One day as he was riding to 'Nashville on the old L. & N. the yain was wrecked while crossing a. bridge and plunged into the river. They pulled the colonel out with a. boat-hook, and when they got him-on him-on shore ' one of his friends rushed-up, rushed-up, crying: "Colonel! Are you hurt?" "No!" he snorted. "Never swallowed swal-lowed a damn drop!" |