Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-07-08
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BETSY DESTLSOlS THE PAPER.
SEQUEL TO ''EETsY AID ARE OUT"
By Rev. Petroldm Y. Nd1u.

To SEQ that things are regular, settled up fail
For I've been taikig With Caleb, and Caleb has
| talked with ne,
And the mount oft is we'rc minded to try once
| more to agrG.
so I came here on tic busness-only a word tC
| say,
! (Caleb is stalking pa vines and couldn't COM
to-day,
just to tell you an, parson how that view
changed our mnd
SO I'll tear up the paper, lawyer, you see
wasn't signed,
And now If parson Is sready, I'll walk With hin
1 want to thank him for some things 'twa
He's showed how Of ihn hin ts't.l1Sn e fsqG sn. .
firm and true; -
we mlghtn't have changed our mind, 'suirc. i
he'd been a lawyer too.
There How good the sun feels, am "'''''
and blowin' trees 40 mo roe1 Ct
Something about them iarye- '''''~ >0- ~
to freeze, , ,,,-,;,,,,. g., .ho.
1 was not bodnd to s.ete parl!ou ''iS 10 tha'
Bnt ito 't,' risbt that "a should know, parson,
about our chrige OF plan'
We'd been somo Jays a-waverln' little, Caleb
And wished M W tia hateful paper at tho bottom of
I puess ;tw,s The prayer YOU said last evening,
=. an9 the few words you said,
Tint thawed the ice between US, and brought
thipgs to head.
You sec, when we came to division, there was
things we couldn't divide;
There was our twelve-yea' old baby, she couldn't
he satisfied
To go with one or the other, but just kept whlm-
perrin low,
"I'll stay with papa ant mamma, and where
they go I'H go."
Then there was Grandsire', Bibc--he died on our
wedding day;
We couldn't halyc the id Bible, and should it
go or stayi
Tho sheets that were Caleb's mothers, her
samplar on the wall,
With the sweet old names worked ln-Tryphcna,
and Eunlce, and Paul.
1t began to be hard then, parson, but It grew
harder still,
Talkin' of Caleb established down at &cHenrys-
vile;
Three dollars week 'twould cost ; no mendin'
nor sort of care,
And board at the widow Meacham's, Il woman
that wears false hair!
Still VIC went on a-talldn' agreed to knit come
socks,
And make n dozen striped shirts, and q pair OF
wamus frocks,
And he was TO cut doorway from the kitchen
to the shed
"save You climbing steps much In frosty wea-
ther," le said.
lie brought me the pen at last felt sinkin',
and ho
siXty-thrCc. '- ''' '"' Srri"" n'
Twas then you dropped in, parson I; 'Lwasn't
much that was said,
Chtllran hnr Itt hE
thing was killed stone dead.
/ should like to make confession not that I'm
going to say
way,
But 1t may be true that women-tho' how ii.
/ can't see
Are t. trine more aggrayatln' than men know
how to be.
Then, parson, the nelghbors meddlin'--it wasu'
pourn' oil
And the church a-labOrin' with us, twas wors,
than wasted toll
And l'ye thought, aud 80 las Caleb, though may
be we are doing wrong,
If they'd kept to their own business, We skoUll
have got along.
There was Deacon Amos Purdy, n good man III
we know,
But hadn't gin OF labuin', except with n scyth,
and hoe
Then load came overn peach time from th
Wilbur neighborlood
"Season ofpraycr," thy called it didn't do ~
an atom of good.
I'll tell you about the h,lfer-one of tho kndes
and best
That Brother Ephralm gave me, the fall We NOV
cd out West;
I'm free to own it ril.d mo that Caleb shoul,
think and say
She died of conyuleiou5-a COW that milled fou
gallons day.
But needn't have spoke Of tunips, nocdn'
have bcuu 30 cross,
Aud said hard thiIss, and limited rs If twas al
ny lussi
And IN take il al back, parson that Gre shan
ever break cut;
/ Though the COW was chukol with u turulp,
never had doubt.
Then there are fm,5 Of doctrine, and views OF
future sIlc,
Pm willing 10 up dlscuasln' We can't both al
ford TO wat,
'rwout bring me millennium any sooner, di.
putin abou when lts due,
| Although feel m assurance that m!nos "a
scrlpIu.al 'icw.
/ But the blcssedesttrIths OF the Bible, I've learn
ed ~ think toni De
/ In the tc2ts We hult with candle 20 prove on
/ doctrines by
/ But them that coinis % W. IA sorrow, and NAc
Wc're on oug knees,
So II Caleb won't argue ON free will, I'll lcaS
alone the deefees'
One notion Of Calybs, PIson, scoms rather mist
aud dim
1 Wish, if IL comes convenient, you'd change
word With hHi,
Il doHt quite stand 10 reason, aud for gospel
i-ut clcAr,
That iolks love better ia heayca for layiu
qaarEel-l here
Ilo uo such ana gz}eeIalioui why, parson,
that u 60,
lou u1elu't have Ngked 90 faithful 10 T,c0nei
fllka below,
hold another opiabn, and bold u straight al
s4uate,
II Nc ean't he psaes.ule here, NC son, be peae
Ab!e iAsle,
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