The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-26


grub long Onter pay streak bouts well
as any of EN-, but this yere is new
lead to me an / don't feel right at home
on it.
with that Shorty sat down an waited
fer some o. the rest ov Us to speak, but
we didn't feel ekal to the 'calon, so no
body rose up.
Look yere, boys, says Shorty, this
won't do. Some Nv We shorely got no
tons bout this business, an if ye hev the
parson wants to hear 'em. Git up, fell
lers, an speak out
''Stn nobody didn't move, an could
see that Shorty want pleased. He
waited leetle while, then he hoped up
an said:
"'Stumpy Jackson, yer got CAB huff
when it comes TO sSearin', an figger
that you could fling out a few remarks
On this ercaSion if yer tried
az hain't 40 speaker, said Stumpy,
AN I'd ruther be excused
"TLook yere, Stumpy,' said Shorty,
we amt goin' to hev no snealin' out O.
jooties in this business. Just you rise
up thar an set your mouth goin', will
We?
"Stumpy see that he war in fer it, so
he crawled up, an leanin' agin the wall
with his hands run down in his pockets
he said:
'Fellers, I'm with the parson. I'm
in favor o. this yere Sunday school. l
think that Their Judas chap what parson
read bout wuz gol darned scamp, an
I'm agin i'm. Them's my notions
with that StumPy slid down the
wall to the floor, an the parson talked a
little more and then the thing wuz over.
Purity soon after that the parson
went away, an we wuz left to git along
without i'm. But Shorty came out
monty strong then, an lowed he could
run the instertution, an he did, too, an
made a success of it, you kin just bet.
Il never see Shorty's head fer takin' a
interest in what he took hold ON. Feared
like when he set in to do thing he Jest
put his whole mind to it, an he wasn't
satisfied less he WIZ doin' his level best.
That's the way he wuz bout that Sun
day school, an every Sunday he wuz
promptly on hand, an he see to it that
every doggoned one Of us wuz Their, too.
/ never see SIGH change in nobody
mother as there wuz in Shorty. He quit
oussin' an fghtin', and he never per-
tended to go bout the s'loon no morn if
thar hadn't been SIGH a thing. When
he wasn't at work he wuz readin' the BIZ
bic, an lots o times he would set fer
hours singin' them old chunes, and fer
maxim music he wasn't to be snufhed at,
femme tellye.
oval, we got long fust rate with that
thar Sunday school, and ever Sunday
Shorty'd explain to US bout them Script
urs, and he'd allus give that thar Judas
Teller a gouge fore he quit. Shorty
never could bar a sneak, an 1 reckon
that Judas wuz as low down an misera-
BILE a sneak as ever lived, jedgin' from
what I've heerd bout i'm.
lone Sunday, long two or three
months arter the preacher left, Shorty
got up after the Sunday school business
was done an he says, 'Fellers, 'cordin'
to my way o. readin' this yere Scripture
1 figger out that we OF to be baptized, an
this book knows its business, so 1 reckon
we'll go down to the crick right now
an git that over
''Stumpy hoped up to argy the ques-
ton an come out agin baptizen, but
Shorty shet 'em up in short order an
carried the pint his own way.
"a leetle water won't hurt you, no
how, Stumpy,' says Shorty, an reck-
on you needn't be so powerful skeered
Nv it. Yer ought to battle once in yer
life, anyway, an now's as good a time
as any
THAT wuz purity hard crack at
Stumpy, fer joorin' the six years he'd
been at the camp he hadn't never bathed
none. Stin, Stumpy wuz monty good
hearted ole CHAP, an we all liked i'm.
But bout tibet baptism. AS said,
Shorty carried his pint, an we all filed
out an down the crick, war Shorty put us
under, an we submitted monty meek,
fer he carried two big pistols, an we
didn't know but he'd use 'em.
"'Twssn't long afore Shorty's Sunday
ScnOOl SOJ TO DO huOWu a ltI Stll near
'mong the miners, an sometimes people
come as much as thirty miles to see it in
operation. l remember one time lot O
fellows come over from Polecat Gulch,
an they wuz ungodly lot, shore. They
wasn't hardly in the house afore they
began to laugh an make light o
the doin's, but they didn't keep it up
long, lemme tell We, for the fust thing
they know'd Shorty laid down the book
he wuz readin' from, and pintin' cou-
pie o. pistols at EN-, said:
Were goin' ter hev order in this
we're shop er know the reason why, an
the next derned galoot that makes a
racket had better say his pra'rs, fer
blamed if don't drop i'm in his tracks.
We're glad to hev visitors when they
know huff to behave themselves, but
when they don't they'd better stay way
or bring their collins long with EN-.
The sarvioes Il now purceed-' AFTER
that Shorty never had no trouble, an
fer four years that Sunday school has
been a runnin' right along, and today
it's fiourisbin' Thomas P. Aountfort
in brakes Magazine.
Sixty-fve years ago Emnons Rudge
harsn 70 saU ica in Hartford. Conn. and