The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-31
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we didn't feel ekal to the 'casion, SO no.
body rose up.
"'Look we're, boys says Shorty, this
won't do. Some ov We shorely got no
tons bout this business, if we hev the
parson wants to hear EN-. Git up, fell
lers, an speak OUT
s'Still nobody didn't move, an could
see that Shorty want pleased. He
waited a leetle while, then he hoped up
an said:
"sStumpy Jackson, yer got CAB huff
when it comes to swearin', an l fgger
that you could fling out a few remarks
on this ercasion If yer tried
81 hain't no speaker, said Stumpy,
AN I'd ruther be excused
"sLook yere, Stumpy,' said Shorty,
we amt goin' to hev no sneakin' out O
jooties in this business. Just you rise
up thar an set your mouth a goin', will
ye?
s'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. I
think that ther Judas chap what parson
read bout wuz a gol darned scamp, an
Tn 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.
s'Purty 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.
81 never see Shorty's head fer takin' q
interest in what he took hold on. Feared
like when he set in to do a thing he Jest
put his whole mind to it, an he wasn't
satisfied less he w1z dom his level best.
That's the way he wuz bout that Sum
day school, an every Sunday he wuz
promptly on hand, an he see to it that
every doggoned one Of Us WIZ ther, too.
I never see SIGH a change in nobody
mother as there wuz in Shorty. He quit
cussin' an hghtin', 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
BILE, an lots O. times he would set fer
hours a singin' them old chunes, and fer
maxim music he wasn't to be snuf1ed at,
femme tell ye.
"Wal, 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.
"One 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
/ fgger out that we OF to be baptized, an
this book knows its business, so I reckon
we'll go down to the crick right now
an git that over
''SSttumpy hoped up to argy the CUES
ton an come out agin baptizen, but
Shorty shet 'em up in short order an
carried the pint his own way.
"sA leetle water won't hurt you, no
how, Stumpy,' says Shorty, AN I 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 a purity hard crack at
Stumpy, fer joorin' the six years he'd
been at the camp he hadn't never bathed
none. Still, Stumpy wuz a monty good
hearted ole chap, an we all liked i'm.
"But bout tibet baptism. As I said,
Shorty carried his pint, an we all fled
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.
""Twasn't long afore Shorty's Sunday
school got to be known a fer an near
'mong the miners, an sometimes people
come as much as thirty miles to see it in
operation. l remember one time a lot o
fellows come over from Polecat Gulch,
an they wuz a 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 NJ
long, femme tell We, for the fust thing
they know'd Shorty laid down the book
he wuz readin' from, and pintin' a cou.
pie o. pistols at 'em, said:
"sWe're goin' ter hev order in this
yere shop er know the reason why, an
the next derned ga1oot that makes 3
racket had better say his pra'rs, fei
blamed if I 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 wa,
or bring their collins long with 'em
The s~arvices II now purceed.' Artel
that Shorty never had no trouble, an
fer four years that Sunday school ha.
been a runnin' right along an today
it's fourishin'.'