News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-11
TWO MAINE STORIES.
The Minister'S Ducks and Tom CrOwIey's
Estimate of Elder Adams.
ETrom the lewiston CEe.D Journal

From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
While steaming down the St. Croix
River with Captain Wooster on the
swift TUG William Kinds the Captain
told me two yarns that are well worth
repeating. We were passing the town
of Perry. A young lady of IL years, an
other Captains daughter, took the
wheel and managed it like an ancient
mariner. and the captain was at liberty
to suck his cigar and tell his stories.
"a minister who used to live here in
the town of Perry said he, was once
visited by another minister on Sun
dav; so he killed two ducks and ordered
his hired girl to dress and cook them
for dinner The girl did s she was
told, but while the ducks were baking
her beau came and made her call. Be
ing hungry and tempted by the smell
of the sizzling fowl, he seized one Of
the ducks and ate it.
The girl was driven to Der wits end
by this unlucky incident. She was
rather glad her beau had such a nice
dinner, but espaired of finding an eX-
cuse to tell the minister-let's call him
Mr.. Brown to account Tor the missing
duck. When Minister Brown came
home to dinner with Nisilin Ministerg
Jones, the girl had hit upon scheme.
She asked her employer to go out to the
grindstone which stood in the yard and
sharpen the carving knife. He went at
work on the knife at once, being hungry
for those ducks. ! he girl stole up
stairs and asked the visiting minister 10
look out of the window.
Z" See therel said she. q came up
to give you warning. You little know
the danger you're in. ] he man l work
for is crazy, and he is sharpening that
knife to cut your throat
"The girl succeeded in thoroughly
alarming the visitor, and he hastily put
on his hat and ran as fast as his legs
could take him.
''When he had run several rods the
girl called her master and asked him
what kind of a man he had brought
home to dinner. The minister inquired
why she asked, when, pointing to
the flying bother, the girl exclaimed,
There he goes, running away with one
of your ducks"
The Captains other story concerned
the notorious Elder Adams, who con
Quoted the bewildered Maine colOnists
to Palestine and abandoned them in
poverty there When Elder Adams
was preaching his crusade he had to
contend against many scoffers and
doubters. One of them was arJonesport
man named Tom Crowley.
cat one of Elder Adams's meetings
in Jonesport, "quoth the Captain, Tom
Crowley arose and said he had dreamed
a dream which he would like to Tell
The Elder told him to 90 ahead and
Tom proceeded. He said he dreamed
the devil had got possession of him and
would not let him 90 unless he lTom
would name thee things he could not
do So he first asked the devil to part
the Atlantic ocean so an army could
march across, as the Israelites did, and
the devil easily did IL Then Tom
asked him TO tell him where
wreck lay in which Tom was once cast
away, and the devil told him to a dot.
AS a last resort, said Tom, 4 dreamed
l asked the devil to produce bigger
liar than Elder Adams, but the devil
acknowledged he could not do it and
gave me up"
Toms dream produced great sen
sation in the meeting head her for that
old barn!' exclaimed the Captain, sud
denly turning his attention from to the
girl at the VIII eel