The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-07-12

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strucked by a pile-driver, and
some people were hauling our
buggy into the gutter, and some
men were trying to take the old
/ PAGER out Of the street car, and
then Z guess I tainted away again.
/ o, it was worse than telescoping a
train loaded with cattle.
w ell, l swan, said the grocery
man, as he put some eggs in a fun
mel shaped brown paper for a SER
want girl. "That did the minis
ter say when he come too?"
SAY What could he say? He
just yelled whoa, - and kept saw
ing with his hands, as though he
was driving. ] hear that the po-
liceman was going to pull MIN for
fast driving, till he found out it
was an accident. They told me,
when they carried me home in a
hack, that it was a wonder every
body WAS not killed, and when I
got home pa was going to sass me,
until the hearse driver told him it
was the minister that,was to blame.
want to find out il they got the
minister's umbrella back. The
lest [ seen Of it the umbrella was
running up his trousers leg, and
the point come out by the small Of
his back. But am all right, on
~ my shoulder is sprained, and
nay legs bruised, and my eye black.
I viii be all right, and shall go to
work tomorrow, because The livery
man says [ was the only one in
The crowd tiat had any sense. I
understand the minister is going
to take a vacation on account OF
his liver and nervous pro5tration.
would ii | was him. l never
saw q man that had nervous pros
tration any more than he did when
they hshed him out Of the barbed
wire fence after we struck the
street car. But that settles the
minister's business with me. !
don't drive for any more preach
er5. What I want is a quiet party
that wants to go on walk, " and
the boy got up and hoped on'one
foot towards his clutches, filling
his pistol pocket with figs as he
Lobbjed along.
Well, sir" said the grocery
man as he took chew Of tobacco
ont Of Pail, and offered some to
the boy, knowing that was the on
/ ly thing in the store that the bow
would not take. do you know I
think some Of these ministers have
about as little sense ON worldly
matters as anybody? Now, the
idea Of that man jerking on The
old pac5r. Ii don't make any diff
ference il the PAGER was a hundred
years old, he would pace il he was
jerked on.
"You bet" said The boy, as he
/ pat his clutches under his arms,
and started fer the door. CA min
lister may be sound on the Atone
ment, but he don't want to saw on
an old PAGER He may have the
subject Of infant baptism down fin
er than q cambric needle, but if he
has ever been to college, he ought
to have learned enough not to say
eye up" to an old PAGER that has
been the boss Of the road in his
time. 4 minister may be endow-
ed with sublime power to draw
sinners to repentance, and make
them feel like getting up and dust
ing for the beautiful beyond, and
cause them, by his eloGuenca, {
see angels bright and fair in then
dreams, and chariots Of fire flying
through the pearly gates and down
the golden streets Of the New
| Jerusalem; but he wants to turn
ou5 for a street car all the same
when he IS driving a 2:20 PAGER
The next time [ drive a minister
to funeral, he viii walk" and tbs
boy hobbled out and hung ont a
SIGN in front Of the grocery
Smoked dog fish at haubat
prices; good enough for company.