The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

about two blocks behind, and the
driver was laughing, and the min
lister Ire got pale and said, my
little man | guess you better drive,
and said: Not much, Mary Ann,
!, you wouldn' let me run this fune.
raj the way l wanted to, and now
you can boss it, If you let me get
out, but there was a street.car
ahead and all of a sudden there
was an earthquake, and when
came to, there was about six hun
dred people pouring water down
my neck, and the hearse was hitch
ed to the fence, and the hearse-dri-
yer was asking if my leg was broke.
and a policeman was tanning the
minister with a plug hat hat looked
as though it had been struck by a
pile-driver, and some people were
hauling u buggy into the gutter,
and some men YER trying to take
the old PAGER out Of the windows of
the street-car, and then l guess I
tainted away again. O, it was
worse than telescoping a train load
ed with cattle"
We'll, l swan" said the grocery
man, as he put some eggs in a fun
mel shaped brown paper for a SER
want girl. "What did the minis
ter say when he come tol"
"Sayl What could he say? He
Just yelled whoa and kept saw
ing with his hands, as though he
was driving. l heard that the
policeman vas going to pull him
for fast driving, till he found it was
an accident. They told me, when
they carried me home in q hack,
that it was a wonder everybody
was not killed, and when l got
home pa was going to sass me, un-
til the hearse-driver told him it
was the minister hat was to blame.
l want to find out if they got the
minister's umbrella back. The last
| see of it the umbrella was run
ming up his trousers leg, and the
point came out by the small of his
back. But | am all right, only my
shoulder sprained and my legs
bruised, and my eye black. l will
be all right, and shall 20 to work
tomorrow, cause the livery man
says | was the only one IN the
crowd that had any sense. under.
stand the minister is going to take
a vacation on account of his liver
and nervous p%rostratIon. | would
i'll was him. | never saw a man
that had nervous prostration any
more than he did when they fished @.
ont OF the barbed wire fence. :
alter we struck the street a But
that settles the minister business
me l don't drive for no s
more preachers. What | want is a !
quiet party that wants to 90 on a
and the boy got up and hop !
ped on one foot towards his crutch- {
es, filling his pistol pocket with figs
IS he hobbled along. +
"Well, SIR" said the grocery a
nan, as he took a chew of tobacco 6
nut of a pail, and offered some to e
he boy, knowing that was the only 9
hing in. the store the boy would c
lot take, do you know | think
iome of these ministers have about &
IS little sense on worldly matters, r
IS anybodyl Now, the idea of that \
nan jerking an old PAGER. 1t don't a
make any difference if the PAGER o
vas a hundred years old, he would a a
'ace If he was jerked on" .
"You bet," said the boy, as he v
his crutches under his arms Il l
nd started for the door. A min L
ster may be sound on the atone. =
.ent, but he don't want to saw on ?
n old PAGER. He may have the !
of infant baptism down $ ;,
than 4 cambria needle, but if
e has ever been to college, he u
ught to have learned enough not o
o say 'ye-up' to an old PAGER that e
as been the boss of the road in !,
is time. A minister may be en- y
owed with sublime power to draw P
lnners to repentance, and make a
hem feel like getting up and dust !.
'g for the beautiful beyond, and N
auSe them, by his eloquence, to II
pc angels bright and fair in their d
realms, and chariots of fire hying W
lrough the pearly gates and down y
golden streets of the New Je- "
lsalem, but he wants to turn out !,
'r a street a all the same, when Az
e is driving a 2:20 PAGER. The U
time drive IL minister To a CT c,
neral, he will walk" and the boy !,
obbled out and hung up a sign in ~
ont of the grocery, "Sm0ked do0 "
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