The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-06-21
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Say" what n thas heax about yous pa and the new minister quarrsling. and your pa ordering hin out cf the door and his refusing eo 70, and hittiag yoar pa in the ear said the grcceryman sc the bad boy, as he showed up at the usual hour.
 -Well, t was partly true, but t vas all q loke.s said the bad boy. as he looked cat the door to sec if his parent was m the vicinity. Woe sec, t vas a new minister that came here to exchange works with our preacher. You knos when they exchange works it is as good as vacation. cause both ministers can preach an old sermon tha, has been lay ing around and go; mosh-easen. The next day after the visiting preacher preached he came to our house to stay a day or tuo, at mas invitation. Pa hasn't been feeling very well lately, and ma said he wanted some excitement. and 1 thought of an old story read once aboa, some students at theological seminary making two professors believe that each other was deal, and hos they talked loud to each other. and l thought n saeh a joke was all right ,n a college where they turned ou, young preachers. il woald do al our house, So told ma she better tell pa to talk loud enough, or the preacher couldn't hear him. You sec, didn't he, but ma went and told pa the minister was deAi as post and he would have to yell bloody murder to make him hear. 1 don't think s vas right tor ma to say that, cause didn't tell her the minister VAS deal, but pa sad he hadn't spoken al ward caucuses tor nothing. and he would n ake the preacher hear os talk the top of his head of. l brought the minister's satchel over fton the house where he had been stopping. and he came along with me. and 1 asked him how his voloe was. and he said 1t was all right, and told him he would have use for h n he talked with pa much. He a<ked me ,f pa was deai. but l wouldn't lie. and all l sad was n the minister would yell as loud as he did when he got excited in preaching, pa would hear the most ot what he said. Q, he sad he guessed he wouldn't have any trouble making pa hear. Well, ushered him in the parior, and they shook hands and | skipped up stars, iust as pa swelied out hls ches, and took A long breath and shouted clad to sec you. We'll. you'd . dide- It seemed as though his voice would knock the new minister's car oil, bu, the minister braced himself. inflated h. i.ns.. and .hanf~d The hapu,ncss IS mutual, assure you, and then they both coughed, cause guess Il strained their lungs some. Ma vas leaning over the banisters, and when pa would roar at the minister, ma would laugh, apd when the min tster would roar back al pa, | woald laugh. Pa seemed to think the minister talked loud, cause all deaf peo- pie talk loud. and the minister thought the same, and they was having II pretty loud, you bet. The talked .soa, se:.ds,n. i. and polil,c,, and everything, and pa mopped his bald head with his handkef- chief, and the minister 90, red m the face; and hnally pa told the minister he needn't yell loud enough to loosen the shingles, as he wasn't deaf, and the min. is,er said he warn't deal. and pa needn', ,, yell like maniac, and then pa said he was another, and the ministes sad pa was a worldly son of Beiial, and then ma she sec it was time 10 stop II, and she went down ssairs on a hop, skip and jump, and told them both that there was a mistake, and that nobody was deaf, and the minister said he under stood from pas little boy that his pa was hard of hearing. and pa sent for me, bu, was scarce. Don't you think boy shows good sense. sometimes, in 10, be- ing very plenty around when they yearn for him Sometimes l am numerous, and then again l am about zs few as any of the boys. Well, there was no harm done, but pa and the minister have .hesr opinion of each other. Say, what do you think of the nominations '" and the boy began to husk some strawbesries n bsx
 "Oh, don't know anything about Il, What am thinking of is whese you will fetch up," and the grooeryman looked hard. " Here you have played q mean joke on a truly good preacher, and your osn hthcr, and l an ashamed of you But, by the way, what has become oi the colosed family you adopted, the sick boy and his sick mother. You haven't gone back on them and lei them ssarve, have you 7"
 "Starve no,hin'," said the bad boy. " Our doctor attended to them until they were both we'll, and didn't charge a cent, and ma and went around and collected money enough from the neighboss to =, the old colored lady up in laundry, with regular washing machines, and wringers, and everything, and she hires three ~o- men to help her, and the colored boy is the cashier, and collects the clothes and delivers them in A nice little hand cart that borrowed from | printing office for them, and they arc making mooey hand over hss, doisg vashing los abou, forty families. But the meanest thing was they wanted to pay ps for my kisd- ness to them Gosh, 1t hurs me for any body to want to pay me for helping 'em out Of serape. get enough fun just thinking about il, and when anybody calls me bad jua vhiaie Waii til the Ciouds roll by,' and think of the dif5eses, ones have made happy, and who think am all night, and dont pay no attention to the mean things people say about me.