Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-02-11
VA, Z. to see me he will have to come up here

Asrll throw the bootIack at your wooden
ts voobl obeyed with ,alacrty and in time to
8 escspe the threatened missile. iou
Alter an absence of few minutes ne was
a card returning, attending upon the footsteps
Of another. And the next minute he entered,
ushering in the Rev. MIR, Goodwin, the par
i.h ministsf of Bethlehem, st. Mary's.
.Ho1v do you dos How do you do Glad
SEQ yo,. cir gia d to see YOU though oolis
cd 20 receive YOU in bed Fact is, caught
a cold with this severe change of weather. and
took a warm negus and went to bed to sweat
Il off, You'll excuse me. Wool, draw that
EASY chair up TO my bedside for worthy Mr..
1,odwin, and bring him glass OF warm neg
US. 1t will do him good after his Geld ride.
Il tb,nx YOU, Major Waricld | will take
,beeeat but not the nesns, if YOU please, to-
night
Not the negus! Oh, come now, you are
Joking! Why, it wAkeep you from catch :
ing cold and be a most comfortable night cap
disposing you to sleep and sweat IKE paoy!
or course you spend the night with us ?
II thank YOU no, l must take the road
again in few minutes
Take the road again to night why, man
q alive. it is midnight, and the snow driving
like al Lapland.'
.si,. am sorry to refuse your proftered
ho.pitalify and leave your comfortable root to-
night, and sorrier still to have to take you
with me-, said the pastor. grareiy.
Take Me with you No. no. my GOOD sir
no no. that is too good a ioke-ha ha =
Sir, 1 fear that you will lind 1t very Sc
rious one Your servant told you that my err
rand was ona Of imminent urgency
Yes, something like life and death.
.Exactly-down in the cabin, near the
ySssI, xvi. there is an old woman dying.
-sfRMa3sIs,asw it, was just saying there
= might lie an old woman dy:ug But, my dear
: air. what's that to me What can do
i Humanity. sir, WOULD prompt YOU.
- .But, my dear sir. how can heip her
am not physician To presctiO'----.
.She is far past physlcsu's help.
Nor am priest To hear her confession.
.Uer confession God has already received.
.Nosir: but you are recently appointed one
Of the Justices of the Peace for Alleshany.
: yes: we'll. what of that. That does not
compromis the duty of my Getting up out OF
NV warm bed and going through a snow
storm to ste an old woman expire.
Excuse me Tor insisting SIR. hut this Is an
official duty,' said the par>on, mildly but hrih-
.I'll throw up my commission tomorrow,
To morrow Won my do that. but msan-
while, Tonight being >ttll in the commission
of the peace YOU are bound to get up and I,
,r;,h mo Ia Tins woman, bedside
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