The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-12-02
TWO MAINE STORIES.


While steaming down the ST. Croix
river with Capt. Wooster on the swift
tug William Kinds the captain told me
two yarns that are Well worth repeating.
says a writer IN the Lewiston 1N")
Journal We We're pa--.- lis rJv. #
Perry a young lady oT j5 yes -
another captains dauCE--E. Ok 1e
wheel and managed II Ike -4 ..-- t
mariner. and tine caD-als was =. III Y
to suck his cigar and II - -J-ies-
"A minister who Ussy - -. l-re n
the town OF Perry - d he ss-s 1 e
visited by anO.Eer minister El q a.
day; 50 ne sillgu -~5 l--as --.- o-ll 4
his hired girl 10 dress ard .5oE l. N
for dinner. Tue -5ri e.. sc
told, buJ while the duck we las =
her beau came and made her i ca.-
Being hungry. aud temp eH by the smell
OF the sizzling 1pwi. he seed one of The
ducks and ate IL.
The girl was driven 10 her wits
ends by this unluchy nc.denl- She was
rather glad her beau had such 4 nice
dinner. but de~pa!ryi al finding an ex-
cuse 10 tell the miuister-let'S call him
MIR. Brownie account ioF the missing
duck. WHen Minister Brown came
home 10 dinner with Visiting Minister
Jones the .iGl had hit ug,uH a scheme
She asked her eWpiuyer 10 90 out to the
grindstone which stood in the yard and
sharpen the carvIng-knIfe. He went 1t
work on the knife al once. being hungry
for those ducks. The girl stole upstairs
and asked the visiting minister to look
out of the window
- See there2' said She L came up
to give you warning. You little know
the danger you're in the man | work
for l. crazy. ami he i sharpening that
knife 10 cut NUur throat.
The girl succeeded in thoroughly
alarming the visitor. and he hastily put
on his hat AMI ran a. fast as his legs
couid take him
when lac had run several rods the
girl called her master and asked him
| what KIND uf man he had brought
home To dinner. The minister inquired
why she asked. when. pointing to the
flying brother, the cirl exclaimed:
There he goes. running away with one
of your duck>2' -
The captains other story concerned
the notorious Elder Adams, who con-
ductci the beWl.aer-i Maine colOnists
to Palestine ami abandoned them in
poverty there. When E.,ier Adams was
preaching his c.i-a,ie ae had to con-
tend aga.u-, many snp:i,.f- and dOubiers-
One OF tuem VS. a JUnespOTt man
named Tom Grow lav.
Al one uI E.Jt-T AHam'~ meetings in
| JOmcSpJrt. yuOtb the captain. Tom
Crowley arose and said lac .iad dreamed
a cream which be- would ike to tell
/ The elder Told him to- 20 aheaII. and
I Tom proceeded. lie said ne dreamed
! the devil had got PU~se>-.o OF him and
( would not i,t him -D Un.s-- Ie tTouD
! would name three things h. could not
/ do. So ne iir-; asked tie dew. - part
{ the Atlantic ocean 50 an army could
march across. a. The i>ga,l.,p- lii. and
| tine devil easily did IT, Ih-a Tom
! asked him 10 JpI hiIn where "a 8. REX lay
I in which Tom once was C=t-t aVay. aad
{ the devil told him To- a GUJ - a last
resort said Tom, i dreamed asked
I the devil TO pTuiuc- a uI-.rsr liar than
/ Elder Adams. bG- tLe devil ackuOwl-
edged he couId not do :; aud gave me
up
. Toms dream produced a great sen
sation iU i.r meeting H.ad her for
that old barn" g>e.15ua. the c-Ip:1in.
suddenly turning Els attention from me
tU the giri as tly wHer.
II the rest %. Elder AaHnI-~ learers
I had taken Tom. = measure uI JHHl mCnu-
mental fraud they wound have saved
themselves vast deaf 81 suffering