The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-17
A Muss AT MuLKlrrLE.s.
Why the Reverend Gentleman Drove
 Visitors from His House.

MOSS Al AOkAl LE S- Why the Reverend 0enaleman Drove
 Visitors from His House. 
 Poorly paid preachers who are SO thor oushiy wrapped up in the work of gospel promulgztion, and to whom Peter and Paul seem companions, and who look upon misfortune as an adverse visitation ofProvidence, must regard visit from a loquacious relative. accompanied by a heathenish. rough-shod boy as indeed a fown from the Great One. Mrs. B:ckle, genealogically distant, bu, in poin, of exzsperasion near relative ofthe Rev Mir Mulkittie, visited the family of tha, gen. tleman the other day, bringing her son jimmie. freckled-facc rooster with rcd hair and vicious appetite. One look at Jim would satisfy an ordinary observer, despite the soubnques of rooster, just ap- piled. ehas he IS young wolf. He looks like woif, eAfs like wolf, howis like a woif and is a vo,f insomuch that Mir. Mul- ktfie would be thankful for the drah of an invention. short of actual violence, by which he could keep the above-named woif from his door. Aunt MaD,- by which endearing address Jim's mother delighted ts be known, had not been in the Mulkittle house fifteen minutes when a howl from the boy announced that something had taken place, the something soon proving to be, on the preachers part at least, the unlamented fact that he had been caught in a steel trap, while prowi- ing around the -s;orerooTn.r Next he got his head fastened in the mouth of a crock Jar, then he got his eyes full of on ion juice. then he fell into a barrel of rain water and finally closed half day of ac- tive operations by trying to punch the co~ with stick and receiving the en- ragged animals hoof in boneless part ot his anatomy. Young Mulkittle loitered on the outskirts of the campaign, assonished at Iisn's maneuvers,Y but not daring te take part in the proceeding.
 At oight, when the family and trouble some visitors assembled in the sitting room around the little stand on which the Bible was won't to be placed. Aunt Mary, who next to social scandal enjoyed the discussion of religious affairs, after pinch ing Jim for wiping his nose on his sleeve, remarked
 Mulkittle, you don't know how l en- Joy getting out of the country and coming to town where l can hear the gospel as i, ough, to be preached. My husband is so busy
 Haun' cards in the cotton pen with black Bob" suggested Jim.
 Jimmie" screamed his mother. @i1l whip you, I'll whip you, sir. when we get home mind, sir, I don't"
 MaV,' said the minister turning to the Bible, must say you have vicious son. Yoa should teach him in regard to the Great Book and take from him that ex- uemeiy heaihenish air"
 exclaimed Muoitfle's boy, i'm don't know who Abel was and when asked him who Cain was he said he was a walking stick"
 Jim snorsed and pulled hts red hair in giee of conquest.
 "Cain vas a bad man wasnt h, pa !"
 -yez. son," replied Mulkisis wirh evf- dent pride a; the inselligence exhibited by hrs son in eontrasa D Aunt Mays vicious young snooser, Cain was . ~icked man"
 .Cdn killed his brother with sfick of stove wood, didn't he ?"
 Jim snorted again and asked "~ho chopped the voodr
 He kileA his brother vieh . ciab.''
 sWhaG made him kill his hroshezr
 Decaase tAe Lord loved AhA bester dan he did Cain."
 "Dsd Cod make Cain ard Ahei too r
 ~Ys. boeh were the childrsn ef tAe Lxd."
 s!Csd made Abei good and Cain bad, Aidnf Hes"
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 Bef fl God had wanted Cam to be good He cDald have made him good. couldnt Her
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