Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-01-11
A NUss AT MULKITTLE's.
Why the Reverend Gentleman Drove
Visitors from His House.

Why the Reverend Gentleman Drove
Visitors from His House.
From the Arkansaw Traveller.
Poorly paid preachers who are so
thoroughly wrapped up in the work Of
gospel PRONUNCIATION, and to whom
Peter and Paul seem companions, and
who look upon misfortune as an ad-
verse visitation of Providence, must
regard visit from loquacious rela-
tive, accompanied by a heathenish,
rough-shod boy, as indeed frown
from the Great One:
Mrs. Bickle, genealogically dis
tant, but in point Of evaporation a
near relative of the Rev. Mr.. Null
kittle, visited the family Of that gen.
tleman the other day, bringing her
son Jimmie, freckled faced rooster
with red hair and vicious appetite.
One look at Jim would satisfy an Or
dinary observer, despite the soubri-
quet of rooster, just applied, that he
is wolf. He looks like wolf, eats
like a wolf, howls like wolf, and is
a wolf, insomuch that Mr.. Mulkittle
would be thankful for the draft Of an
invention, short of actual violence, by
which he could keep the above nam
ed wolf from his door.
"Aunt Mary" by which endearing
address Jim's mother delighted to be
known, had not been in the Mulkittle
house fifteen minutes, before howl
from the boy announced that some
thing had taken place, the something
soon proving to be, on the preachers
part at least, the unlamented fact that
he had been caught in steel trap,
while prowling around the storeroom.
Next, he got his head fastened in the
mouth of a jar, then he got his eyes
full of onion juice, then he fell into a
barrel of rain water, and finally closed
a half day of active operations by try
ing to punch the cow with stick, and
received the enraged animals hoof in
a boneless part of his anatomy.
Young Mulkittle loitered on the
outskirts Of the campaign, astonished
at Jim's maneuvers, but not daring
to take part in the proceedings.
At night, when the family and
troublesome visitors assembled in the
sitting room around the little stand or
which the bible was wont to be placed,
Aunt Mary, who next to social scandal
Eenjoycd the discussion of religious
affairs, after pinching Jim for wipine
his nose on his sleeve, remarked:
"Mulkittle, you don't know how ]
enjoy getting out of the country ant
looming to town where I can hear til,
tgospel as it ought to be preached
My husband is so busy"
''Playin' cards IN the cotton pei
with Black Bob," suggested Jim.
/ Jimmie" screamed his mother
I.sI'll whip YOU when we get home. sir
mind if 1 DON'T
MARY" said the minister, turning
| to the bible, 81 must say you have
vicious son. You should teach hin
in regard to the great book, and tax
from him that extremely heathenis
air."
"Pa," exclaimed Mulkittle's boy
"Jim don't know who Abel was, an
when l asked him who Cain was b
said he was walking STICK
jim snorted and pulled his red hal
in glee of conquest.
"Cain was a very bad man, WASH
he, pal"
tYes, son." replied Mulkittle, wit
evident pride at the intelligence el
= hibited by his son in contrast to Aur
Mary's vicious young snoozer. "Cai
was wicked man."
"Cain killed his brother with
stick of stove wood, didn't he?"
= Jim snorted again and asked, "wl
= chopped the wood?"
. "He killed his brother with clu
y my son."
J. "What made him kill his brother
u "Because the Lord loved Abel be
- ter than he did Cain.
- "Did God make Cain and AL
tco?"
eyes, both were the children of t
Lord
"God made Abel good and ca
'e bad, didn't he?"
IN eyes"
~ "But if God had wanted Cain to
lg good He could have made him gol
Id couldn't Hep
g "Yes,' replied the minister, 81.
Sc looking at Aunt Mary.
IN "If Abel was good, and God 10,
IL him, why did He let Cain xii! him
n Because God wanted Abel to co
Il unto Him."
oe "But he.had Abel anyway. Did
Cd it hurt Abel when Cain hit him?"
"You bet it did," said Jim, twi
" ing himself on the floor, and kick
" at his mother. Mr.. Mulkittle bestt
ed a glance of ministerial conteI
on the youngster and replied:
HOf course il hurt him.