The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-07-06

.mininv In this region Is n hard life. but
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81 r., ,v,, ,;,,,o p;,lv ~ asked N,
.,,.u., wh;,. ,ho aork svss of the lad,
., ri. .;s, ,na,kIod in an,icipation of 4
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.Well. YOU see-it be something Of q tell
.-and II we'd move further on in the shade
of tina old OAK wonder. it'll mayhap be pleas
.n,.r Co, m. vounc miss. for the sun be very
r.,
tn. LADY and gentleman followed the brown
and v.,,ber.beaten man to the cool shade oil
,ho "a. and snd;nr n seat for the Young lady
y, n roo, that came souarely up from the
rrou,a the miner BEGAN, with his usual pre-
e..
w., .o-p;,Lv were the son of jesse
p;,,,.u , vo,n, man. and regular good
-. =. Tho saving yocs. Ireckon Pinkham
A.. or,v man of ma as ever said the
-. ,r,vsr or ,nv other prayer. lie were
,;.o conn, fellow, that's the fact! But,
80, . rude set. sir. we of the mines, and
'spccially in this place we didn't like any
thing that was what we call 'pious.' SUM-
dav. sir. used to be rccular-well, l might
saw. devils day, with us. II was nothing
but drinking and dancing, pitching, and
cards. and swearing.
We'll air. Won see-,Jcsse he got married
10 n REGULAR lady.like girl, sir, and it turned
out A pious one. They didn't none of EN-
that is, Pinkham, his wife, and old mother
line us in our merry-makings on Sabbath,
but sometimes the youx man and Be~y-
that's his wife, sir-would walk five miles to
hear n person preach. We was all down
upon Jesse, sir-you see the real thing was,
be made us ashamed Of ourselves by his good
n.sa and I was worse than the rest, trying
NV hest all the time 10 pick up quarrel
with him. Well. sir, one Saturday night
vba, did we sec but notice stuck up on
this tree, that there'd be person froul
Fnnkstown on the morrow, to preach to us.
We didn't like the news, and we could tell
prttty we where the move come from be-
cause YOU see, we knew Jesse was pious. So
we determined, tho greater part Of Us, that
we wouldn't have any psalm-singing - no
cantius prayer-no reading out Of the BIZ
bic.
Well, the minister came, and he found a
Babel. We all got together, and we raved'
and laughed, and pitched quOits, and made
such noise that the parson had to give II
up. lie tried agin and agin, and came right
among us-he was plucky, tell ye-but We
hooted IN his cars, and threw mud on his
bettermost clothes, and so he was fairly driy'
en- ofI-'cause you see we had liquor enough
in us to set us all crazy.
Poor Jesse! - how we jcered him after
that, but he bore il meek. sir, and I was Of.
ten ashamed Of myself, though Id died aforc
I'd confessed IL. But I'm sorry enough for
NV mar, NJ II for one day there came a
umblinr. heavy noise, shaking the earth,
and then n crash like ra,tlinr thunder be-
noo,b ON, fac, and we knew that somebody
w,. bur;ed alive. IL was in the working
.h,,, whsrs less, was and there didn't hap.
~, =, h. +, .ou, !, tho plaec exccpt him.
10, E.,low, Thcv.d ali gone into another
.,,o whsr. h. d;dn,, like to follow 'cm,
,can.c ,bev were such wicked set and as
,hov wa, eating their dinners and he his, the
,o.;dcr, banncncd
w. a., him ont sir, He was awful
.,,.hoa-a,, Nm, hi. faee-that looked smil.
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