The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-18
WORTH REPRINTlNG.
a APPEL for Are to the Sextant of the Old
Brick MeetinOuse.
BY 4 CASPER.

The following lines which originally ap-
gDeared in the Detroit Tribune, we're published
over thirty years ago. but the philosophy they
-ce'ntain is just AS good aud applicable now as
then While the writer was seemingly rather
a poor speller he was evidently in earnest
aud possessed keen wit:
. ID Sextant of the mcetinouSe, which sweeps
And dus1s. or IL supposed too! and makes
fierS.
And ties the gas and sumtimes leaves a screw
in which case it smells orful-worse than
lamp le
And wr.ngs the Bel and toles it when men
dyes
TO the grief of survivin pardners, and sweeps
pathes:
And Tor the servases gifts 800 per annum.
WITCH them that thinks deer, let en- try il;
Gettin up befOar Star-lite in ali welIhers and
kindln fires when the wether is cold
As zero, and like as not green wood for kin
dierS;
! wouldn't be hired to do it for no some
But sextant. there are ! kcrmoddity
WIch : .:cOre than gold, witch dOanL cost nothnl.
Worth more than anything exsep the Sole OF
i mean pewer Are. sextant. mean pewer Are
o it is plenty out o dores, so plenty it dOant no
What on airth to dew with itself, but hy5
about
Scaterin leaves and bloin mems hats;
IN short jest fire a. are out dOres.
But sextant, in our church its scarce as
scarce as bank bills wen agints beg for
mischuns,
wich some say purity often ctaint nothin to
Wat give amt nothin TO nobody but o sex
tant
shct J0j mems wmmcn and children,
Speshailv Che latter, up in tite place,
Some has bad breths, none amt = Swete,
Some IS fevery, some Is scroflus, some has
bad teeth
And some ha.nt none, and some amt over
clean;
But every on en- breethes in & out ana out
and in.
Say - times mint or | million and half
breths AN hour,
Now now long viii Il church full of are last at
that rate,
i ask You, say Is minits, and then watts to be
1idy
Why then they must brethe it all over agn.
And then agn, and so Oh, till each has took it
At least 10 times, and Lex it up agin, and was
more
';'>e same ind, vidble don't have the privilege
OF brcthe n MS own are, and no ones else;
Each one mus take whatever comes TO him.
u scXtant doant you know our lungs is
bCliuSses,
To bio tie Ter of life, and keep it from
soin out; and how can bellusses bio without
wind,
And amt wind are? put it to your conscens
Are Is the same to Us as mix to bah eS,
Or water is to ish, or pendlums to clox-
Or roots airbS unto an injun Doctor,
Or little pills unto omcpath,
Or boys o guriS. Are il for us to brecthe.
Wat signifies who prCeches if j cant breethe?
Watts Pol: Waits iollus: TO sinners who are
ded.
Ded for want Of breth? why sextant, when we
die
Its only COZ We cant brethe no mOre-that' 5
all.
And HOW, o seXtant, let me beg of you
= let little are into our church.
tIe~er are is serUin proper for the pewS)
And do 4 weak days and Sundays Ucw-
IL amt much rouble-Oniy make Il hole
And The are will cum in of itself;
at iuVS 70 cum i'll WHARF It can git warm;)
And how it viii rouse the people up
And Spcrrit up the rcacher, and stop garpS,
And yawns aud tigg1tS as cHCctooal
As wind on the dry Beans the Profit tells of.