The conservator., 1886-12-18
0 Y MUSTAPHA.

u THE sTOR
tMr Burdet,e'.. but
Now in the ) . NJ fe,
of the good Cs,they N hth in the reigl
tapha said: III las so that Mus
work; thoughthg, 4 hried with mucl
hsad hUli of ' es5s T repose @Se, for rtb sh
death even nol9E is upon me, ant
md he calleitedgg sat the door,"
and said: Go Eed upon his tongue
WAS the oath a}ollahs!" For this
svore.) "Of l.k which all physicians
rest. Flee unt 4lty, thou must have
close thine eve re valley Of quiet and
back thy bra dreamful rest; hold
hand from lab .an thought and thy
didate for the tyou will be a can
And he bea, Iiit in three weeks"
put the bus;nd ti1, and went out and
clerk and we the hands of the
valley of ouie ssWay to rest in the
Uncle Ren's. u And he went to his
10! these four Rn he had not seen for.
Uncle Ben was en- years. Now, his
the valley of re iafmer' aud abode III
repose rose alk and the mountains of
rich and well fs at him. And he was
OK and healthy ored, and strong as an
times he boa an onion crop. Oft
that there Tjsylu unto his neighbors
body. and bI &c o lazy bone in his
lazy man. oIf that he hated
-E~+~ - I5JS B not that it was so.
,nxal US X ached his Uncle
,ers ca~rr & him with great iov,
rt.5; =. 5ssre} n, slipper sSJ ;,',;d ' q
up on his lsete 80 til wreck of a box
car and when could not eat it all
they laughed hin to scorn.
ana after supper they sat up with
him and talked with him about relatives
whereof he had71eyer, in all his life SO |
much as heard. And he answered their
questions at Rldom, and lied INTO
them, professingto know Uncle Ezra
and Aunt Beth sla. and once he said ba
had, had " letter p Uncle George 60 gel last ,st
Now, they ali knew Uncle George
Was Was shot IN q Reighbors sheep pen
1hree years ago. 0tAIustapha visit not
lhat IL was SO, Ind he was sleepy and
only talked to fih up the time. And
,hen they talked politics to him, and he
mated politics. So about | o'clock in
the morning they sent him to bed.
NOW the sparefoom wherein he slept ,
was right under the roof, and there g
were ears and bundles of ears of seed =
corn hung from the rafters, and he g
plunged his eye With the same. and he !;
hooked his chinNn festoons cf dried =
apples, and shook dried herbs and seeds y
uowh y MS PACK asshe walked along, for q
= was dark AND when he sat up in O
,ee Ded at night hdran a scythe into his h
"A And it was Il b. novx s7on+ with S
llm' for the bed An;g wide. And thew q
we're restless aN Slept crosswise and |,
lcked, SO that M1stapha slope not a q
WINK that night, Hither closed he his 9
yes.
And about thahkusth hour after mid a a
nght his Uncle Ben tmote him on the q
ack ana spake unto him, saying: 0
IA Awake' ar'Seeuo9e out of this and b
fried and t. Ga vsr vaitath b1I Bacon Yon i, b
= III u, ma ule WFNcsE.4n n at the other end m
the COW lot. IN towel with you." 81
When they IT, }7sn his Unc!e Ben in
'ake unto him, zig: Come. let us to
aiHea lHlf around s%nnt irm:' And d! they. s p:
nliea nele Bsn anout bed miles; And LIS hl1 re r?
, their loins a talked about four to
lies, even int b forest, and his WI
ncle Ben taul him how to chop ia
BOD, and they f1l imck to supper.
nd thus were Il brning and OVEN
e of the frs IL, and Mustapla I'M
shed that hex dead. yo
And A, after [TGis Uncle inc Ben fri fri
AXE once moo i: "Co1na, let Jet
have some flu AM so they hooked flu
q team and drovE nine miles down to
lchers branch, Where there was q vo
p. And they dat heed until the second wI
ur in the morning.
w nen the next day was come. which
snt long, for ALREADY the night was -.
spent, his Cncl.l Ben took hiln out the
l taught him how to make rail fence cav, eas
d that night t1Ereo was wedding, 'ol
1 they danced and made merry. and
INK and ate, and when they went to
at 3 o'clock Mustapha prayed that
18th might come ts-nim before break
time.
But breakfast had an early start and w.
there first. Aad his uncle Ben W.
k him down to the creek, and taught
4 how to wash AMI I3hear sheen. And
Ell the evening was come they went
spelling school, 'and they got home
the first hour alter midnight, and
Gle Ben marve1ed that it was so
ly. And he lighted his pipe and sat itE
for an hour, apdsDt2ld Mustapha all Pr,
ut the forty lie Bought last spring of A.,
Mosey Stringer to finish out that "
th half, and about the new colt that Mr.
foaled last spring PR,
nd when Mustapha went to bed that W.,
ming he bethought him of dose OF IN
chnine he had with him, and he said Mis-
prayers YEARLY. and he took it, RE-,
ut the youngest boy was re stless
night, and kick6tall the poison out
i'm in less than ten seconds. T
nd in the morning while it was vet incl
t, they ate breakfast And his Scif
le then took hi4; out, and taught NJ
how to dig Hitch. And when ~ =,
ing was come @ BE was revival Ht,ii .',l
ting at Ebenezei fthodist Church, he
thoy all went. Ind there were iron
G regular preach is, and two ex- the
ers, and a Baptist evangelist. And lect
midnight was come, they went and
e and sat up, and talked over the coll,
ting until it was btdtime. will,
DIV when Mustapha was at homo, he
his desk at the fifth hour in the
! , Io,.r '4llu neto ne Went to BED at the Sub,