The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-09

mag, and I'm ~ the counsel wasn't hard
: o. W.. Ms,'r a s.u r...oa. alter all II
was nore Ne Babbit's faht than twas
eettins what he could ont q town, and ho'
would feed his sheep on the meetin house
green. Somehow or other lke's fences
alters contrivcd to give out, come Sunday
and Ike was too psous to drive -'em-bacli
Sunday. and so there they was. He wa
talked TO enough about it, cause ye see, t.
have sheep and limbs a ba .a,i and a hlatip,
all prayer and sermon time, want the thing
Member that old meetin' house up /.
the north end, down under Blueberry hill
the land sort o sloPed Down, so as a body
he'd to come into the meetin' house steppin'
downsinstcad o up.
Fact was, they said twas put there
cause the land want COOL for nothin' else,
and the folks thought putin a meetin'
house ont would be d clear sayin'-buf
Panon Mprrd he didn't like it-and was &c
tell l'eme bis mind emit, that twas like
bringin' the lame and the blind to the Lord's
supper-but there WAS
| Then want d better minister nor no
one more set by in ali the State than Parson
| MorrelI. His doctrine was right up nnd
down, good and sharp, AID he gives saints
L and sinners their meat in due season, nnd
for consoling and confoEtin' widders and
orphans ,Parson Mofel hadn't his match.
| The women sot lots by him, and he was
| allus ready to take tea round, and make
| things pleasant and comfortable, and he
| had a good story for every one and a word
for the children, and maybe IN apple or q
cookey in his pocket for 'eIn. Wal, you know
there amt no pleasin' everybody, and ef
Gabriel himself, right out O. heaven, was to
come md te-n minister, ! expect thcre'd
be . pickin' at his w.ug, and sort O. fault
indin'- Now Aunt Jerushy Scran and
Aunt Polly Hokuin they sed Parson Morrel
want solemn enough Ye see there's them
that think that . minister ought to be just
like the town hcarsa, 70 that ye think Of
else. when ye see him round and II they
see q man rosy and clipper and having a
pretty nice sociable sort Of n time, why they
say he amt spiritooal minded But in my
tina I've socn ministers that the most
nwAkenin' kind in the pulpit was the live
liest when they was out ont. There is u
time to laugh, Scriptnr' says, though some
folks never seem 10 remember that are
But Sam. how came You TO say IL was
Ike Rabbits faultY What was 1t about tho
a~heepf"
"0h wai, yes-rm n comm to that arc.
It was all about them sheep-I expect they
was the instrument the devil sot to work
to tempt Parson to laugh in prnyer-time.
"Ye see there was old Dick Ike's bell
whether, hRhtin'est old critter that ever
yer see.-Why, Dick would butt ut his own
shadder and everybody said it was a shame
tho old critter should be left to run loose,
cause he run Mt the children and scared the
women half out o their wits. Wal, ] used
to live out in that parish in them days, and
Lem Sudoc and | used to go out sparkin'
/ Sunday pfsfhfa IN uoa tho II. rLtn fxala and
we had TO go right cross tho lot where Dick
was-so We used to 60 and stand ut tho
fence and call, and Dick would see us and
put down his head and run ut us full chisel,
and come bunt ngin the fence, and then I'd
ketch him by the horns and hold him while
Lem run and got over the fence Z other side
the lot, and then I'd let go and Lem would
boiler and shake q stick at him and away
he'd 60 full butt at Lem, and Lem would
catch his horns and hold him till / came
o~ver-thnt was the way we managed Dick
but ef he come up sudden up behind n
fellow, he'd give him u butt in the small of
tho back that would make him run on all
vurs one while-hc wasn great rogue, Dick
was. WA, That summer ! remember they
had old Deacon Titkins for tithing-man, and
I tell you he give 1t to tho boys lively.
There warn't no slcepln' nor plnyin', for
the deacon had eyes like o gimlet, and no
was quick a. a cat, aud the youngsters had
to look out for themselves. IL did really
seem rs II the deacon was like them four
beasts in the Revelations that WINS full Of
eyes behind and before. for which evor way
he WINS standin' II you gave only a wink he
was. down on you and hit you n tap with his
stick. / know once Lem Sudoc Just wrote
two words in the psalm book and passed to
Kesiah Larkins, and the deacon gave him
such n tap that Lem grew rcd as q beet and
vowed he'd be up with him some day for
that 4
well, Lordy massey, folks that IL 80
clipper and high.steppin' has to have their
coune-downs, nndthe deacon he had to hive
his. wa
=. That are Sunday, INremember II now
Just as well as If twas yesterday. The
parson he give us his great sermon, recon
ciin' DEGREES and free agency-everybpdy
said that IRE sermon was n masterpiece
He preached it up to Cambridge at com.
mencement, but it so happened that it was
one o. them biin' hot days that comes
in August, when you can fairly hear the
hhuckieberriesh sizrlin, and cookin' on the
bushes, and the iocustsk keeps a gratin' like
a red-hot saw. Wal, such times, decrces or
no decrecs, the best ON us, will get sleepy.
The old meetin' house stood right down nj
the foot of n bill. that kept off all the wind.
and the sun blazed away at them great west
winders, and there was pretty sleepy times
there. Well, the deacon he flow round a
spell, and woke up the children and tapped
the boys on tho head. and KEEP everything
ms straight as he could tin the sermon wa,
most through, when he rally got some
tackered out, and hc took a chair md h,
sat down in the door, right opposite the
m mister, and fairly got asleep himself, JUS
as the minister got mp to make the last
prayer. y
"Wal, Parsn Morrel had a way O. prayins
with his eyes open. Folks said IL want
the best way, but IL WINS Parsons Morfel's
way anyhow, and SO as he was prayin' he
couldn't help seen that Deacon Titkins was
a bobbin' out towards the place where old
Dick was feedin' with the sheep. front a.
the ineetin' house door. nj
.Lem and me was sittin' where we could
look ont and We Just sees old Dick stou
fecdin' and look ut the deacon. The den.
con had n little head round rs an ample
with n nice powdered wig on It, and he sot
there mnkini bphs and bows and Dick be.
gun 10 think it was suthin' sort o p~ussonal.
Lem and me was sittin' Just where we could
look out and see the hull picter, and Lem
was fit to split.
Good now says he, "that crittor II
pay the deacon of lively pretty ~soon."
THE deacon bobbed his head n smell.
and old Dick he hoo his horns and stamr I'd
at him sort o. thrcatenin'. FINAL, Tho
deacon he gave n great bow and broa hi
his head right down Mt him, and old pick
he sot opt full tilt and come down on hun.
kerchur,k, and Knocked him head ovet
heels into the bToad aisle, md his wig tltw
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