Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-06-09

began TO conthrivs what else he could
now think iv. to keep himself out iv tn,
claws iy the ovid one. Well, he Otter
heerd tell there was one thing the devil
never could do. and dar say you heerd il
too, Sir-that is that he couldt make a
rope out of the sand Of the sac and so when
the ovid one KEN to him the next day,
and said his job was done, and that now
the mill was built, he must either tell him
something else he wanted done, or come
away wild him.
So the Colonel said, he saw it was all
over wild him, but,' says he, i would nj
like to go wild you alive, and sure it's all
Tue sauie 10 you, alive or dead!
'Oh. that won't do says his friend;-
L can't wait no MORE, says he.
Il don't want you to wait, my deal
friend says the Colonel; all want i.
that you'll be pleased to kill me before YOU
take me away
With pleasure says Ovid Nick.
But will you promise me my choice o.
dyln' one particular way?' says the Colo.
mel.
Half dozen ways, if it plase you,
says he.
You're mi ighty oblecgin,' says the Co
onel; I'D rather die by bein hanged with
rope made cfthe sand ofMe sea, says he
lookin mighty knowin' at the ouI tel
kow.'
I've always one about me- says the
Devil, to obleege my friends, says he; and
with that he pulls out rope made of sand
sure enough.
The game is mine sure enough saws
the ovid fellow, grinnin,,' with terrible
laugh.
That's not sand-rope at ALL says
the Colonel.
Isn't it?' says the divil, hittin' him
across the face with the ind iv the rope
and the sand, (for it was made of sand
sure enough, )went into one of his eyes
and made the tears come with the pain
That bates all ever seen or heerd,
says the Colonel, strivin to rally, and
make another offer is there anything
you can'td
: N thin you can tell me, says the div.
ii, so you may as well lave off your pal
averln,' and come along at wanst.'
'Will you give me one more offer?
says the Colonel.
You don't desarvs it, says the divil
but l. don't care if | do for you see, Sir
he was only plapin' wild him, and tantal.
ism the old sinner.
All fair says tho Colonel and with
that he ax'd him if he could stop wo
mans tongue.
Try me-, says Old Nick.
Well, then, says the Colonel, make
my ladys tongue be quiet for the next
month, and III thank YOU
She'll never trouble you agin,' say.
Ould Nick; and with that the Colonel
heered roarnin' and cryin and the door Of
his room was thrown open and in ran his
daughter and fell down at his feet, telling
her mother had just dropped dead.
Ihe mint the door opened the divil
runs and hides himself behind big elbow
chair; and tho Colonel was frikencd almost
out of his swim sinses, by raison of the
sudden death of his poorlady, let alone the
jeopardy he was in himself, seeing how the
dlvil had forestalled him every way, and
after ringin' his bell and calm to his sar-
vints and recoverin' his daughter out of her
faint he was goin away with her out of the
room when the divil caught howld of him
by the skirt of the coat, and the Colonel
was obliged to let his daughter be carried
by the sarvints and shut the door afthcr
them.
Well says the Divil, and he grinned
and wagged his tail, and all as one as a
dog when he is pleaed, what do you saw
now?' says he.
Oh says the Colonel only lave me
alone until | bury my poor wife, saws he
and III 60 with you then, you villain, ;
says he.
Don't call names,' says the divil; won
had better keep civil tongue in your
head says he, and it doesn't become a
a gintlemen to forget good manners
Well, Sir, to make long story short
the divil purtened it to let him off, out of
for three days, until his wife was
buried; but the raison of it was this that
when the lady, his daughter, tainted he
loostend the clothes about hor throat and
in pulling some of her dhress away he
took off goold chain that was an her neck
and put it into his pocket, and the chain
had diamond cross an it, (the Lord be
praised!)and tho divil darn'tt touch him
while he had the sign efMe cross about
him.
Well, the poor Colonel, God forgive
him, was grieved for the loss of his lady.
and she had an aliyant Grr 'tn-and thew
say, that when the prayers was readin'
over the dead, the Colonel took it to
heart like anything, and the word o'God
KEN home to his poor sinful sowl at last.
Well Sir, to make long story short
the ind iv it was, that for the three days
o'grace that was given to him the poor de-
luded ould sinner did nothin at all but
read from mornin to night, and bit or su;,
didn't pass his lips all the time he was SO
intent upon the holy book, but sat up in
an ould room in the far end of the house
and bid no one disturb him on no account
and struv to make his heart bould with
the word iv life; and sure it was some
thin strengthened him at last, though as
the time drew nigh that the inimy was to
come he didn't feell aisy; and no wondh-
er and by dad the three days grace was
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