Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-07-13
Volume XL.---No. 3.

to think like that, but how can [
help it. Say, suppose those fishermen
were cut hauling their seines, and our
minister should come along with his
gooo clothes, his jointed rod, his nickel
plated reel, and his silk fish line, and
his patent fish hook, and put frog
on the hook, and cast his line near
the Galilee fshmen an 60 trolling for
bass? What do You suppose the lone
fisherman OF the Bible times would
have thought about the gall of the
jointed rod fisherman? Do you sup
pose they would have thrown stones
in the water where he was trolling, or
would they have told him there was
good trolling around point about
half mile up the shore, where they
knew he wouldn't get a bite in a
week, the way fellow at Muskego
Lake lied te our minister spell ago?
| tell you, boss, it is sad thing for
boy to have an imagination, and the
boy put his other knee in the sling
made by the clenched fingers of both
hands, and waited for the grocery man
to argue with him.
4 wish you would go away from
here. | am afraid of you,' said the
grocery man. i would give anything
If you pa or the minister would come
in and have talk with you. Your
mind is wandering, and the grocery
man went to the door and looked up
and down the street to see if somebody
woEl dn't come in and atch the crazy
boy while he went to breakfast.
%, pa and the minister can't make
first payment on he. Pa gets mad
when ask questions, and the minis
ter thinks am past redemption. Pa
said yesterday that badness was caus-
ed in every caae, by men wearing plug
hats, and when asked him where the
good Eliza (whem the boys called go
up old bald head, and the bears had
Tree lunch on them) got his plug hat,
pa said school was dismissed, and l
could go. When the minister was
telling me about the good Elijah GO
ing up through the clouds on char
lot of fire, and | asked the minister
what be thought Elijan would have
thought if he had met our Sunday
school uperintendent coming down
through the clouds on a bicycle, he
put his hand on my head and said my
liver was wrong. Now, l will leave
it to you if there was anything wrong
about that. Say do you know what I
think is the most beautiful thing in
the Bible !?
No. / don't said the grocery man
and if you want to tell it will listen
five minutes, and then l am going to
shut up the store and 60 to breakfast
You make me tireu.'
well, think the finest thing is
that story about the prodigal son,
where the boy took all the money he
could scrape up and went out West to
paint the town red. He spent his
money in riotous living, and saw every
thing that was going on, and got full
of benzine, and struck all the gangs Of
toughs, both male and female, and
his stomach went back on him, aud he
had malaria, and finally he got to be
a cowboy, herding hogs, and had to
eat husks that the hog didn't want,
and went pretty low down. Then he
thought it was pretty good scheme
to be getting around home, where they
had three meals day, and spring
mattresses. and he started home, beat
ing his way on the trains, and he
didn't know whether the. old man
would receive him with open arms or
pointed boots, but the old man came
down to the depot to meet him, and
fright there before the passengers, and
4 the conductor and brakemen, he
wasn't ashamed of his boy, though
he was ragged, and looked as though
! he had been on the war path, and the
loid man fell on his neck and wept,
and, took him home in y hack and had
. veal pot pie for dinner. That's
what call sense. A good many men
now days would have put the police
on the tramp and had HIM ordered out
of town. What, you going to close up
the store? Well, | will see you later,
want to talk with you about some
thing that is on mind, and the boy
| got out just in time to save his coat.
tail from being caught iD the door,
and when theAgrocery man came back
, from breakfast he ofennd q. sign in
front, This store is closed tillfurther
enthusiastically - Peck's Sua.
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