The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-10-21

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He soon weakened on such plain
provender, an says he to himself, says
he.
GO Even the old man 3 hired hands are
livin' on square grub, while Pm wor-
ryin' along here on corn husks straight.
I'll just take grand tumble to myself
an chop on this racket at once. I'll
skip back to the governor and try to
fix things up, and call fur new deal,'
so Off he started.
The old man seed the kid coming
and what do you reckon he didY Did
he pull his gun and lay fur him, in
tending to wipe him as soon as he got
into range? Did he call the dogs to
chase him Off the rancho Did he
hustle around for club and give him a
stand-of at the front gait9 Eh2 Not
to any alarming extent he didn't. No,
sir The Scripture book says he waltzed
out to meet him, and froze to him ON
the spot, and kissed him, and then
marched him off to a clothing store an
fitted him out in the nobbiest rig to be
had for coin. Then the old gent in
vited all the neighbors and killed fat
calf, and gave the biggest blowout the
camp ever seed"
AT the conclusion of the narrative,
the speaker paused, evidently framing
in his mind proper application of the
story. Before he could resume, tall,
blear-eyed gambler with fierce mus
tache, arose and said:
"'Taint me as would try ter break up
meeting, or do anything disreligious.
No, sir; am not that sort of citizen.
| But in all public hoo-doos is is parlia-
mentary rule for anybody as wants to
ak questions to rise up an fire them off.
do not want to fool away any time
questioning the workings of religion !;
oh, no. AS long as it is kept in proper
bounds, and does not interfere with the
boys in their games, / do not see as it
can do harm. just want to AK the
honorable speaker if he has not given
himself dead away? Does it stand ter
reason that bloke would eat corn husks
when there was hash factories in the
camp? Would anybody have refused
him the price of square mealif he had
struck them for it Would any of
the dealers that beat him out of his coin
see him starve AS remarked afore,I
do not want to make any disrespectful
remarks, but must say that have got
1t put up that the speaker has been
trying to feed us on cussed thin taff'y,
and no one but silly would take it
in.''
Bill glared upon the speaker and fair
ly hissed:
do you mean to say that L am a
liar?"
"Wal, you can take it Just as you
choos. Some folks would swallow it in
that shape"
Bill pulled his revolver, and in an in
slant the bright barrels of numerous
weapons flashed in the air as the friends
of each party prepared for active duty.
The brevet preacher was the first to fire,
and the rash doubter of spiritual truths
fell dead on the ground. Shot followed
shot in quick succession, and when
quiet was again restored score or more
of dead and wounded men were carried
from the tent. Having secured atten-
tion, Bill said:
" Further proceedings is adjourned for
the day. You will receive the dox-
ology."
The audience arose.
7" May grace, mercy and peace be with
you, now and forever, amen and want
it distinctly understood that am going
to maintain proper respect for the gos-
pei if have to choke every son-of-a-
gun of sinner in the mines. Meetin'
is out"
The crowd filed from the tent as coolly
as If nothing extraordinary had occur
red, and as L gained the sidewalk L
heard man remark:
" Bill has got the sand to make a
bang up preacher, and L would not
wonder If he made big mark in the
world yet"
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