Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-01-12

Wild hang down head an achn heart.
Till de grave stones Dustin, dry bones risin'-
Trials, trials, rs gwine to leab dis worl'l-
while Brudder Williams raises de tune.
all dey who wants to be perwided wild
one OBJ de hosses OBJ Revolution, please
walk forward an kneel roun' de mo-
ners' bench
".Now's yo' time, sinner says Mr..
Lashstinger, an as | got up to go for
ward I caught mis- eye an he winked. 1
felt Gurus enuh kneelin' dar by de alter,
wild ole Fadder Scum de Jubilee Harper
kneelin' beside me, an prayin' de
Lord fur me. While he was prayin'
dar come sheet OBJ lightin' dat lit up
all out dos; and after it a rumble and
grumble oh thunder far off, but comm
nearer an nearer. De singers struck
up,
De Gospel trains a comm,
tink she's close at ham;
tink hear her whistle
She's rumblin fru de lam
Little children, get ON board!
You'd better get your ticket.
An be ready to go on boardI
Den dey gan to shout, de sisters walkin'
up one aisle and de brudderen up de
udder, an all takin' hold deir hands an
pumpin' like so dey was pumpin' water,
while dey sang one worse, an den dey
each pass on to ne mex. 1t thun'ered
louder an it lightened more literally
but dey KEEP on, an dis time dey sang,
Shout an nebber tire.
Shout an nebber tire.
ue n shS0s nSD an GRAN heeaS1 eamp sES mseun-
When de worls on fire.
Jus den dar come an awful crack OBJ
thun'er and burst OBJ lightnin' all de
same time. / lowed de worl' was on
fire sho enuff. De camp meetin' broke
up, an we all run ebber whicher way.
| struck out fur de woods fur Savannah.
De rain was just a swashin' down, de
libe oaks peared to be dancin' an tarrin'
deir har, an de pine trees rocked an
screeched like as SO dey was alibe. Fust
ting [ know I was right in de midst of
Bonaventure Cemetery.
"Grave stones Dustin, thinks I, an l
1
run like mad, jumpin' ober de monu-
mence like as dough dey were pebbles.
Den all OBJ sudden Gabriel don blow
his horn right side oh dis yere, an
nebber has heard muffin wild it since.
Craze yard GRRvE YARD !! it said; an
| seemed to see de words OBJ de tex
writ wild pen OBJ fire on de cloud, So
ran dat ye may obtain! | knew what
dat meant. Eff took up my cross an
run Thun 'erbolt to the best OBJ my abil-
ity, might find one Of de hosses of de
Revolution waitin fur me on dat day.
went down on my knees in de wet moss
de rain wasn't muffin. I'd foun' dal
what I hadn't foun' when went to the
'ner's bench I'd foun' religion.
didn't find my way home to Savannah
till mornin', an when / got in Missus
Proudft said young Massa Walter had
got skeered bout me, an had rode ou
| ~, Tbu1,orholk 70 hunt mo I oo& on
got out OBJ my soaked clothes an int
my jockey suit, white, wild facin' oil
watery-million red, on den | hurry ou
to de track. Massa Proudft he looked
terrible anxious. 'Whar you done been
Marce?' he says. Here's Mr.. Lash
stinger been tellin' me some nonsens
bout you're not gwine to ride to-da,
cause you's got religion
"'I's got religion, sho enuh, Mr.. Lash
stinger,' says l.
Good boy says Mr.. Lashstinger-
good boy-good boy, said he. well
MIR. Proudft, I knows anudder goo
jockey, who'll run dat hoss OBJ yours
perwided you dom car to rid it yo'seff.
, i begs yo' pardon. Mr.. Lashstinger
) says I, but de fust lesson don learne
! from my speritual sperience las nigh
5 was, So run dat you may obtaid, an Is
/ gwine to put dat lesson in practice
: Sah.' Wild dat | made him berry To-
r bow, an scrambled up into de saddl
< pretty libely.
!! "Yes madam, we obtained-course "
e did. Massa Proudft married Mis-
e Mock an went to Paris; he's got a be
q ter practice now dan any doctor in S;
s vannah-leastway dat what Miss Moo
: writes me. She says he's done bougl
: Thun'erbolt back again; he's sort.
e steadied down, an makes berry goo
/ carriage hoss now. She wants me to con
!. back to de family, an / DON know bl
$ you'll have to excuse me when de seaso
b is ober heah in Newport Nebber d
a like to spen, winter in de Norf. n
I how. ."-Harper's Magazine.