The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1873-01-21

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the womsii sith tbe warn hsir, Ind dx6s
ID it of e,,sents sssind deiness, nel6 Q1sr
Of tho twins ~ TIE leg and hnkn9 stsd
l. a. Hotta a. he fed down the e@{FeSk
The Hishop reaehed san ffaneiecc.
uDmplsteflss pureh hases, and ~ 1Bst-
about 10 gct "a lie Sraiin go
hundred 1ad fof}y -letlr me-
when . aselcgfa313 eesj ~ s.
contained u nssisr ID 4 90
the anbu.n-haifyff Mrs Potts had juss
Mad o daughter. This iaaaesd thA Rishe1is
to return to the city for tlla purpose OF
an a6ditiosal oxa&a.ae > W
On the following Saturday be rsturued
home As be approached isis Icuso~s''
swsr.r Of Young children few out Of the
front gnte snd ran toward him, ,shuutine.
There's pa! Here.c comes pa! oh, pa
but we're glad 10 see you. Hurfah Tor
pa !" etc, etc. 2 -
The Bishop looked at the children e
they tucked around hin and Gang 70
his legs and coat. and was Rsst'nia als1Q ~
thshthey we're neither his nor
the late Browns. He said:
"Yon Youngsters have made mis-
take; I am not your father" and the
Bishop smiled good natarediy.
30, yes.,. you ata;theugh r the little
ones screamed in CHORUS
"But say am not said the Bishop
severely aad frowniugs "you ought to
be ashamed OF yourselves. Don't yon
know where little ssore-tellers go2 It
is scandaloas f5r you to violate the
truth in this manner. Ny name Is
Potts."
"Yss, we know Il is,s exelaimed the
children, owe know it is and 80 u oufsi
that IL, our name, too, since the we'd !
ding"
aSince what wedding 7" demanded ths
Bishop, turning pale. .w
"Why, mas wedding Of course SIZE
was married Yesterday to you By Mr.:
Young, and we are all living at your,
house now with our new little brothess
and sisters I"
The Bishop, sat down on the pave
reut and wiped away q tear. Then he.
asked:s -
who was your father 2"
'Mr Simpson" said the crowd, "and
he died on Tuesday.
sAnd how many of his internal old
widows--I mean how many OF your
mothers are there 2"
ssOnly twentysseven,n = replied the chill
dren; sand there are eniy siyiy .four-uf
us,snd we are awful glad yon have come
home.
The Bishop did not seem to be unus-
allv glad. Somehow be failed to enter
into the enthusiasm Of tue OCCASION
There appeared to be-, in a certain sense.
too much sameness about these surpri-:
ses, SO that he sat there With his hat
pulled over his eyes aud considered the
situation. Finally, seeing there WAS no
help for it, be went up to the house, and
forty-eight of Mrs. Potts rushed up to
him and told him how the prophet bad
another vision, in which he was COM
pandcd to seal Simpsons widows 70
Potts. -75-7-.ssI'si I
Then the Bishop stumbled around
among the cradles to his writing g-desk,
where be felt among the guln rings and
rattles for bis letter papeg, and then, ed-
dressed note to Brigham, asking him,
as personal favor, to keep awake until
after Christmass The man must take
me for foundling hospital" he said.--1
Then the Bishop saw, clearly enough
that il he gave presents to the other chill
dren and not to the late Simpson's, the
bride (relict of Simpson) would proba-
bly, souse down at him, tumble among
his hair and make things warm FOR him.
aud, rc-pscking his caspet-bae, started
again for San Francisco for sixty-four
more mouth organs, while the Mrs. Potts
gradually took leave Of him in the entry
--alls but the red haired woman, who
was up stairs, and who had to be salis-r
fed with screeehiag goodbye from the
window, Of the top Of her vpice.
On his way home, after his last visit to
San Francisco, the Bishop sat ID . CARLY
the side of xInan who had left Salt Lake
the day before. The stranger was conn
municative In the course of the CONVEX
sation be remarked to the Bishop:
"Thst was a mighty pretty little aflair
up there at the city on Monday. "
.What affair 7" asked Potts.
"Why, that wedding; McGrath's MID;
OF, you knov--narried BY proxy
"Tou don't say replied the Bishop.-
z / didn't know that NJ Grath wss dead"
s.Yes, died on Sunday. aud that might
Brigham hads vision in Fhich he was or
derad to seal her to the Bishep = =
,.T,iskop!" exclaimed Potts s,Bishop!
What Bishop I"
"well, you see, there was 6fieensof Mrs.,
.McGrath and eighty.two children, and
they showed the whole lot od on old
Potts. Perhaps you don't know him r.
The Bishop gave wild, uuearthly'
shrek and went into q hystericai AZ apd
writhed upon the foor as il .hshaa Hy.
drophobia. When he recovered be icaped
from the train and walked hack to San
Francisco. He.pfterward took the .frst
str amer for Peru, where he entered mon.
|astery and became celihate
His carpet bag was sent on TO bis fami-
Ily. 1t contained the balance Of the
mouth-organs On Christmas morning
they were distributed. and in less than sn
hour the entire two hundred and eight
children were sick from, sucking the pair.
off of them. A doctor was cslled. and
he seemed so much interested in the fam
lily that Brigham divorced the whole con-
lcern from old Potts, and annexed to the
doctor, who Immediately lost his reason.
and would ihave batchered The entire FAM
lily If the sed-hai-ed woman and the old
est boy had not marched him of to q In
natic asylum, where he spent his time try
ling to arrive at ali estimate of the number
of his children ,by .ciphering with sn i'm
possible combination Of the inultiplica-
ton table and algebra.
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