The Dawson journal., 1883-02-22

OitAOAs oAes OAeA Oh 1uo music DOX,
and they had a pretty hot time in
the back parlor, and finally they
settled it, and were going to sing a
hymn, when pa handed them d
little hymn book, and the minis
ter opened it and turned pale and
said, whats thisg and they look
ed at it, and If was a book of
Hoyle's games instead of a hymn
book. Gosh, wasn't the minister
mad? He started to read hymn,
and he quit efter heread two lines,
where it said, In a game of four
handed euchre never trump your
partners ace, but rely on the ace
to take the trick on suit. Pa was
trying to explain how the book
come to be there when the minis
ter and deakons started out and
then I poured the two-quart tin
pail full of soft soap on the front
steps. 1t was this white soap, Just
the color of the steps, and then /
went down in the basement. The
visitors came out and pa was try
ing to explain to them, about
Hoyle, when one of the deacons
STEPPED in the soap, and his feet
few up and he struck on his pants
and slid down the steps. The
minister said great heavens, dea-
con, are you burt? Let me assist
you, and he took two quick steps,
and you never seen these fellows
in niger show that kick each
other head over heals and fall on
their ears, and stand on their
heads and turn around like a top.
The minister's feet slipped and
the next / saw he was standing on
his head in his hat, and his legs
were sort of wilted and fell limp
by his side, and he fell over ON his
stomach. You talk about spread
ing the gospel in heather lands.
1t is nothing to the way you can
spread it with two quarts of soft
soap. The minister didn't look
pious bit, when he was trying to
catch the railing. He looked as
though he wanted to murder every
man on earth, but it may be he
was tired. Well, pa was paralyz-
ed, and he and Che other deacon
rushed out to pick up the minister
and the first old man, and when
they struck the stepslthey went XII
ting. Pas feet somehow slipped
backwards, and he turned a sum-
mersault and struck full length on
his back, and one heel was across
the minister's neck, and he slid
down the steps, and the other
deacon fell over the other three,
and pa swore at them, and it was
the worst looking lot ofpious peo-
pie / ever saw. I think if the
minister had been in the woods
somewhere nobody could have
heard him, he would have used
language. They all seemed mad
at each other. The hired girl told
me there was three tramps out ON
the sidewalk fighting pa, and ma
she took the broom and started to
help pa, and / tried to stop ma,
cause her constitution is not very
strong and I didn't want her to do
any flying ttapeze business, but /
couldn't stop her, and she went
out with the broom and towel
tied around her head.
Well, don't know where ma did
strike, but when she came in she
had palpitation Of the hearSjI bn, that
was not the place where she put the
arnica. o, but she did go through
the air like bullet throngh cheese,
and when she went down the steps
bumpity bump, felt sorry for ina.
The minister had got so he could set
up on the sidewalk, with his back
against the lower step when ma
came sliding down, end one Of the
heels of her CATERS hit the minister
in the hair, and the other foot went
right through between his arm and
his side, and the broom'like to push
ed his teeth down his throat. But
he was not mad with NH. As soon
as he see it was ms he said,' 'Why,
sister, the wicked s,antl in slippery
places, don't they and ma she was
mad and said for him to let go her
stocking, aud then pa was mad and
he said, 1ook-aehefe, you sky-piIot,
this thing has gore far enough and
then policeman came along and