The Mayetta Herald Jackson County Thursday March 18, 1915 Saved His Pesky Hide. One of the speakers of the Farmers' Institute told a dandy little story that ran something like this: Once upon a time there was a measly, miserly man, who loved the woman's face on a silver dollar better than God Almighty. When his wife asked him for the kale to buy her a new dress or a $1.89 Easter bonnet, he snorted and fumed and told her to go to h---, hello central!. One day, while walking over his broad acres, a sudden shower came up and he crawled into a hollow log for refuge. The log began to swell, the opening became narrow, and when the shower was over he found himself a prisoner. Then, like a drowning man will, he began to think of all the wicked things he had ever done. He thought and thought, and finally when he began to ponder over his cussed meanness to his wife he became so "small" that he easily crawled through the narrow slit in the log to safety.