The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-05-15

leader asked pa for So, and that broke
him up. Pa told the leader ne sup
posed the gentleman Who got up the
serenade had payed for the music.
and the leader pointed to me and said
[ was the gentleman that got it up.
Pa paid him, but he had a wicked
look in his eye, and me and my chum
lit out, and the Bohemians came down
the street bilin' full, with their horns
on their arms, and they were talking
Bohemian for all that was out. They
stopped in front of a vacant house and
began to play. but you couldn't tell
what tune it was. they were go full.
and a policeman came along and
drove them home, guess l will
slee,, at the livery stable tonight,
cause pa is offul unreasonable when
anything costs him So besides the
chsmpagne.'
well, you have made a pretty
mess of it, said the grocery man.
"It's a wonder your pa does not kill
YOU. But what is it / hear about the
trouble at the church :? They lay that
foolishness to you"
Its all lie. They lay everything
to me. 1t was some of them ducks
that sing 10 the choir. | was just as
much surprised as anybody when it
occurred. You see, our minister is
laid up from the effect of the ride to
the fuoeral. when he tried to run over
a street car. and an old deacon, who
had symptoms of being a minister in
his youth. was invited to take the
minister's place. and talk little. He
is an absent-minded did party, who
didn't keep up with the events of the
day, and who ever played it on him
knew that he was too pious to even
read the daily newspapers. There was
q notice of a choir meeting to be read,
and / think the tennor struggled IN
the other notice, between tn 1t and the
one about the weekly prayer meeting.
Anyway, it wasn't me, hut it like f.
broke up the meeting. After the
deacon read the choir notice he took
up the other one and read: 81 am re-
qnested to announce that the Young
Mems Christian association will give
a friendly entertainment with soft
gloves on Tuesday evening, to which
al! are invited. Brother John Sullivan.
the eminent Boston revivalist, will
lead the exercises. assisted BY Brother
Slade. the Maori missionary from
Australia. There will be no slugging
but collection will be taken up at
the door to defrsy expenses Well, l
thought the people in church would
sink through the foor. There was not
a person in the church, except the
poor old deacon, but what understood
that some wicked wretch had deceived
him, and / knew BY the way the tenor
tickled the soprano that he did it.. /
may be mean. but everything do is
and / wouldn't be as mean
as q choir singer fer two dollars. l
feel real sorry for the old deacon. but
he never knew what he had done, and
/ think it would he real mean to tell
him. He wouldn't be at the slug
ging match. That remark about tax
ing up collection settled the deacon.
1 must 20 down to the stable now and
help gaease hack. so you will have
to excuse me. If pa comes here look
ing for me. tell him you heard / was
going to drive a picnic party out to
Waukesah, and may not be back in a
week. By that time pa will get over
that Bohemian serenade, and the boy
filed his pistol pocket with dried
apples and went cut and hung up a
sign in front of the grocery, ''Straw-
bearies two shillin smell, and one
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