, 1890-09-21

couldn'r have milk when she come into
the wilderness TO live and paid her little
old 50 a week Just as regular as Saturday
night come round.
These boys picked on mine all sum
mer because my boys was plain little fel
lows with no underwear, but good i'm
pulses and a general desire to lay low and
eventually git there, understand My
boys is considerably bleached as regards
hair. and freckled as to features, and they
are not ready in conversation like a wi
boy, but they would no more drive a
dumb animal through the woods till it
was all het up, or take a new mich COW
and scare the dAyliRhts out of her and
yell at her and pull out her tail and send
her home with her pores all open, han
they'd be sent to the legislature without a
crime.
"A neighbor of mine that see these
boys when they were scarin' my COW to
death said ifthey'd of been his'n he'd
rather foller EN- to their grave than see
EN- do that. That's putting OF it rather
strong. but l believe | would myself.
I'VE had a nice old man that come out
here to attend church. he said. He be-
longed to a big church in town, where it
cos him SO much that he could hardly
iOOk MS hakGI III lnt ldtb. nd bdlls Last
winter, he said. they sold the pews at
auction, and he had an affection for one
especially cause he and his wife had set
in it all their lives. and now that she was
dead he wanted it, as he wanted the roof
that had been over them all their married
lives. SO he vent down when they auc-
toned EN- of, as 1t seems they do in
those big churches, and the bidding
started moderate, but run up till they
put a premium on his'n that froze him
out. and he had to take a cheap one
where he couldn't hear very well and it
made him sort Of bitter. Then in May,
he said, the Palestine rash broke out
among the preachers in New York, and
most of EN- had to go to the Holy Land
to get over it, because that is the only
thing you can do with the Palestine rash
wheat gets a hold on a pastor. So he
says to me, Il come out here mostly to
see il | could get any late information
from the Throne of Grace.
He was a rattlin' fine old Teller. and
told me a good deal about one thing and
another. He said he'd seen it stated in
the paper that salvation was free, but in
New York he said it was pretty we'll pro
tected for an old established industry.
He knew Deacon Decker pretty well.
Deacon Decker was an old playmate of
Jay Gould's, but didn't do so well as Jay
did. He went once to New York after he
along in years, and Gould knew him,
but he couldn't seem to place Gould.
W by, Decker says Gould, don't you
know me?" Decker says, That's all
right. You bet 1 know ye. You're one
of these iellers hat knows everybody.
another Teller around the corner
that helps you TO remember folks. | know
We. | read the papers. Git out. Scat.
Torment ye. | amt in here today buying
green goods, nor yet to lit a freight bill
for ye. So avaunt before | sick the police
on We.
Finally Jay identified himself. and
shook dice with the deacon to see which
should buy the lunch at the dairy
kitchen.
Deacon Decker once in church DIS
a loose knot in his pew seat, and
considering the plan of redemption
thoughtlessly pushed with consider
able force on this knot with his thumb.
At first it resisted the pressure, but
finally it slipped out and was succeeded
by the deacon's thumb. No one saw it,
so the deacon, slightly flushed, gave it a
wrench but the knot hole had
a sharp conical bottom, and the edge
soon caught aud secured the rapidly
swelling thumb of Deacon Decker.
During the closing prayer he worked
at 1t with great diligence and all the
saliva he could spare, but it resisted. 1t
was a sad sight. Finally he gave it up,
and said to himself the struggle was use
less. He tried to be resigned and wait
till all had gone. He shook his head
when the plate was passed to HIM, and
only bowed when the brethren passed
him on the way out. Some thought that
may be he was cursed with doubts, but
-eekoned that they would pass away. ~,
Finally he was missed outside. nj
vas generally so clipper and so CHEEKY.
his wife was asked about him. why.
inside. I'll 90 and get him. |
lever knew him to miss shaking hands
With all the folks"