The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-08-15
.5IRA.vENNA. Q. THURSDAY, AUGUST Is, 1917.

now just as well as If twas, yesterday
I The parson he give us his great ser
mon, .rcconcilin' DEGREES and fre
d agency-every body said that are ser
d mon was a master piece. He preach
4 ed it up to Cambridge at tcommence
4 nlcnt, but it so happened it was one Z
! them boilin' hot days that come il
4 August, when you can fairly hear tn,
d huck leberries, sizzling and cookin
4 on the bushes, and the locust keep
d a gratin' ike a red hot saw. Wal
/ such times, DEGREES or no no DEGREES
4 the best on us viii get sleepy. Th,
s old meetin' house stood right down a
1 the foot of a hilb that kept off all thu
;. wind, and the sun blazed away a
4 them great west winders, and ther,
4 was pretty sleepy times there. Well
4 the deacon he flew round a spell, and
] woke up the children and tapped tht
4 boys on. the head, aud kept everything
4 as straight as he could till the sermon
I was through, when he really got tuck
4 cred out, and he took a chair and ht
sot down In the door right opposite
the minister and fairly got asleep him.
self, just; as the minister got up te
make the last nf9ye = ~ -. -. -.
ss1Tal, Parson Morrel had way O
4 prayin' with his eyes Open. Folks
said it want the best way, but it was
1 Parsoh iMeFrei's 9anyhoW, and so he
was Prayin' he couldn't help seein
I that Deacon Titkins was a noddin
and a b6bbin'' out toward the place
where old Dick was feedin with tire
sheep, front o. the meetin' house
| door. ,aeisff{. ia 10 s,s6..f7,,,,i
Lem and me was settin' where we
could look out and we just sees old
Dick stop feedin' and look at the 'dea-
con. The deaconfhad a little round
head as smooth as an apple, with a
nice, powdered wig on. it, and he ,sot
there maxim bobs and bows, and Dick
begun to think it was suthin sort o.
pussonal.i Lem and me was sittin'
jest where we could look. out and see
the hull picter, and Lem WAS fit to
split. 6a. ,,.,,...I..,s f.......
sGood, now" "says he, ,tsthat critter'll
pay the deacon eff lively pretty
soOn,p fdtru ," lf5i.E3 44tai M ifar ID
qfIhe deacon hobbed his head a spell
and old Dick shook his horns and
stamped at him sort o'threatenin'. FL
na1ly the deacon gaYe a great bow
and brought his head right down at
him, and Dick he set out full Hltiald
came down On him kef chunk, and
knocked him head over heels into the
broad aisle, and his wig flew one way
and It 'ofhep, and Dick made a hinge at
it. as it flew. and carried it off on his
horns, .,...4 4-.,f.=.-..,...... .z.,.
aWai, you 5tP may believe that broke
&l,rt,
SON, Morret laughed out and the girls
and boys they romped and roared,
and; the old deacon he got up and COM
menced rubbing his shins-'cause he
didn't see the joke ont. lit3'''3 S'304 ''
9" you don't erfef. laugh,' said he.
it's no laughing matter-it's solemn
thing says he. L might have been
sent into 'tarliity by that darned crit
ter, y saws lie.1ai Then they all roared
and hawhawed the more to see the
deacon dancin' round with his shiny
head, so smooth a fly would trip up
ont. Il believe my soul you'd laugh
to see me in my grave says he. - 1az
ssWal, the fruthson't e twas, twas Just
one of them bastin' up times that ma
tur has, when there amt .nothin for
it but to give way; twas just like the
1OC Ctbk1h up LII l1lS SlAdIlCo llNCl-
it all come at once and no whoa tot.
lSundayor no Sunday. sin oro no sin,
the most on ''em laughed till they eri-
ed, and couldn't help it. -. -.
S"But the deacon he went home feel
in pretty sore about it. Lem Sudoo
he picked up his wig and handed tito
him. q Says he, odd Dick was playing
tithing man, want he, deacon? Teach
yod TO make allowance for other folks
that get Sleepy 1p1' 70 *'2h '1ia3'
ssThen'M rs. Ii itkins, she went over
to Aunt Jerusha Scran's and Aunt
Polly Hokum's, and they had a pot O.
tea over it, and greed it was awful of
Parson Morrel to set sich an example,
ands suthini had tosbe done about it..
Miss HoEam said she allersknewsth that
Parson, MoTrell had no spiritooalty,
and now it,had broken out into open
sin, and led an the rest of EN- into it,
and Mrs Titkins said such man want
fitBto preach; and Miss HokumI said
she couldn't never hear him again, and
the next morning the deacon and his
wife they hitched up and driv eight 4
miles over to Pafson Lathrop's and 1
took Aunt Polly on the back seat. tnI
-f'"IWail the thing agrowed and grow
ed, TILL it seemed as if there warn't
nothin'' else talked about, cause Aunt
Polly and Miss TitSins and Jerusha
Scran they didn't do if1otiain' but talk
about it, and that set everybody elseias
talkin'e evessf. .,aa al .,ad F.fa ~ F.s.ral
"F'inaIly, it was agreed they must
hev a council to settle the hash. So
all the wimmin they went to choppin'
mince, and InakiBinp punEin pies and
.tarts, and abiEn,. doughnuts,
gettin' ready for the ministers and |
delegates4'causec councils always eats |
pow werfiI4and they had quite a STIR,
like a igineral tTainna The hosses,
they was hitehed all Up and down the
stalls, ,a-stompin' and sWitchin' their !
tails, and the wimmin was a talkin',
and they had up every body round
for witnesses, and finally Parson Nor
rel he says: Brethren says he, Jest |
let me tell you the story jest as it hap
and if you don't every one of |
you laugh as hard as did, why, then,
I'll give up" J-str' -'il lssH9
/" The parson he was master at set
tim off a story, and afore he'd finished |
he got 'em all in such a roar they
give sentence that there. hadn't no |
took EN- but such as is
common to man; but they advised
him afterwards alters to pray, with his
eyes shet, and the parson heconfessed
he orter done it, and to do better in
future, and SO they Settled it.
fi"So, boys" said Sam, who always
drew a moral, 'fye see 1T larns you
youFmust take care what you look at,
if ye want to keep from laughin' in
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= yta ~ Frankness. l5.sH gl..uo
81 Be, frank with the world. Franks
ness.is the child of-honesty and cour-
age. Say just. what you mean to do |
on neyery occasion and take it for
granted you mean to do what is right. |
IF a friend ask you favor you should |
grant it if it is reasonable if it is not,
tell him plainly why you cannot; you |
will wrong him and wrong yourself
by equivocation of any kind. Never
do a wrong thing to make a friend or
TO keep one the man who requires |
you to do so is dearly purchased and
at a sacrifice Deal Kindly and firmly
withla all men, and you will find it the
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