The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-07-22
Berry Baker Again.

heard good sermon. Tolerably
good turnout, still there was room
for more. Hope they'll be there
next time. The preachers subject
was something about a legion of
devils entering into 2,000 head of
swine and about Pylot trying to
make the people believe that he
was an innocent party in the cruel
fiction of our Lord and Judas be-
traying the Saviour for the pititul
sum of thirty pieces of silver, all
of which can be found and more to
by consulting the new testament
which / would advise you to do
right away. / have forgotten most
all the first part Of the sermon and
don't remember much Of the latter
but me forgetting it don't hurt the
sermon. Does it2 Neither is it
evidence that it wasn'nt a good
one.
Well, that was a heavy loss to
those hog-men, but l guess it vas
fun for the hired men to see those
hogs running down the bluff into
sea. If the owners of those hogs
had been like the men we use to
call yankees, before we got that
licken in that little twist we had
few years ago, they would
have made 3 financial sue
Gess OF It, by establishing a fishery
on that lake. The sure enough
yankees are mighty hard to beat
1 lr.n Of
used to make wooden nutmegs.
Now making of those nutmegs were
not yankee tricks, bat the trick was
in making their customers believe
that they were the genuine article.
That reminds of yankee peddler
who was selling razor straps enter
ing a country store, calling the at
tention of the merchant, who was
engaged in waiting on some Gus
toners by "SaY, Mister. can 1 sell
you razor strap, only $3.50. The
answer was "no; go way from here
/ don't want to be bothered with
you or any of your stuff" The
yankee says 'you needn't get any
ways huffy about it. I'll bet you
So if you'll make me an offer we'll
trade yet" dome" says the mer-
chant, placing the money in a by
ISLANDERS hands. "I'll give you a
picayuue." The yankee handed
over the strap and the merchant
the money. The yankee saw the
: merchant was confused and says to
him, if you don't like the trade
we'll trade back" Here the mer
chant frightened up and agreed to
,, the proposition, handing back the
razor strap, the yankee handing
back the picayune, saying a trade
is trade. 1 guess your eyes are
Z open," then retiring with all his
straps, leaving the merchant minus
So and his customers in roar oil
laughter.
: 1t is a sure enough fact that the
swine were drowned but there is
consolation in knowing that the
scriptures don't give any account o.
/. those devils ever getting out of thai
lake. Some people believe, how
, ever, that one of those hogs GO
away. This they account for there
: being a mean boy in every drove
. Yet the raising of hogs and TIT
e devil goes on; no, that amt it, rails
Y ing the devil and hogs goes on anC
t I've got the thing mixed anyway
l We have both, too much of one anC
!. not enough of the other or no
t enough of the one and too much o
y the other, ! don't know which,
J recken so.
/ aimed to have said something
e about Pilot and Judas but it look
e very much like raining. / can
s say much suffice it to say that eve
: ryhody knows that Pilot had it il
y his power to release Christ and b
l. did not do 1t. Pilot was a polio
e man; afraid he would lose his posi-
d ton and then he wouldn't be popU
II lar. A heap of us have a little @
IL Pilots nature. Now Judas was
lie good man at the start but the low
p of money ruined him and it didn
y take much either. l love none
W and expect if had a heap of
q, Pde be better off than / am; woul
E. like the experiment. The poor W
s. always have with US and guess il
al right. Poverty puts a fellow to
s heap of unnecessary trouble thong
t in some places its fashionable, bI
II l don't like the fashion. Money
II hard and harder to hold. 'sYo
Of can't fill a man as you'd fill up
a pitcher; he'll always hold lit
le more gold and never so rich bl
what he'd be richer"
I'd BERRY BAKER.
is Near the Squires, July IL, SO.
Nv GOODMACH me FOR 81
A good secondhand American SCI
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