Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-08-06
Sam smal,ey tells how he got Converted.


Sam, YOU was once member Of IHe
church; tell US about your CONVERSION, /
said Leake 10 Sam Smalley, long, lanG .
specimen of humanity, as the aforesaid .
Sam, Leake, Stubbs and myself were re-
turning home one fine evening, from a
sale at neghtor's who was about NOV
ing West.
Sam was about half light, and conse-
4uenly very loquAcious.
Tell yea about the time as when | war
converted 2 yawned the old whiskey bar- I
rel.
Yes SAID Charley 4 reckon ii will
very edlyng. So lei US have your eX-
perence.'
We'll. yea see, boys, thar war big
camp meetn' boys, thar in Hancock; it.
was held by the AardsheIl BaPusts-
Stop, Sam ! said |; you forgot that
the HardshelIs never held camp-meetings.
But say they does, though; and !
reckon ough, TO know, when they con-
verted me al one Of them.
This was stumper, and so let hin
have his own way.
Wall, continued Sam, i went over
thar to that camp ground, and when ar
riv, lied my horse TO sappIln,' when
who should see but preacher Saunders
and Wash HambIin-you know they
| lives over here in Jones. Says old Saun'
ders, Samuel, come this way and went
| Il -, ,b III 4 A
Jess material like what they wanted. Coz
know'd when Them two commenced
rummsging lhickel, thar war whlskey
about, sarIln Arler we got a piece In
the woods, Wash run his hand under an
ole chunk and pulled out a jug as weigh
ing nigh onto two or three gallons
'BrelhIen,' said the preacher, | ain't one
of them as SAYS drinkIn. occasionally, Is
domination, but think il ar Wholesome
TO take little now and then And SO
sayin,' he tux somewhar atween six and
seven and hundred and siXIy-lwo.
Wall, we then adjourned to the meet
in place where thar war big crowd
gathered 10 hear our preacher Saunders
hold forth. Wall, he got up into the pill
porch, and tuk his lax in Jeremiah, whsr
il saws Come unto me all as are heavy
laden and as can! tote yer burdens much
onger.'
And then he commenced sorler slow al
first, but then all at once the spert or HE
whskey one begun TO move him, and he
Just lei out. thought heaven and yearIh
were comm together. bergun to gel
skeered and feel curious, when all al once
an old 'oman as weighed in The neighbor
hood Of three hundred, fetched squat
and shouted, Glory ! ana then they all
commenced. One old brother grabbed
Wash, and Wash like fool hollered,
'Hurrah for the Democracy here's my
hand for a thousand years " jest like he
does when he is in town on lection day
'Bmeby, while | was sidln' round, an
old brother got me up TO the altar, for that
old whlskey had got me so drunk that ]
didn't know but ] war The preacher and
The hull congregation, when the first man
| saw war onr General Jackson, shouln'
as if he were 'lraid to do it.
Stan firm ! ses he, as he cOtched me
by The head and pulled me down on the
straw; and then The first thing | know'd,
for they war kickin' and rsrin, so as
didn't know nothn'-down sat that fal
old oman right on top of me.
'Ob, Lordy sez |.
PRAY on-yer burden will be lifted di-
recIIy,' said old Saunders.
Right there The old 'oman's snuff bot
tie turned over and filed my eyes right
chock full. | commenced groanin' and
,wislin', like dog in hornet time.
Weep on said The General.
Il tried my hest TO get up, but il war no
use; thar that old 'oman sot er shouln,
as conlenIed as hog in mud hole. At
The last trial cotched the old lady by the
leg with my tooth; and she fetched a yell
and riz got free and broke for my
horse. and burned ef that Amt the last
lime war ever al preschin' in Hancock.
But stop, Sam said |: was that the
lime you was converted 2
That's tie time | war converted. said
Sam. as he mrned from the public road up
small lane that led TO his house.
Marrying for Money.
A woman who processes 10 speak from