The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-09-06


"Sdn nobody didn't move, an could
roe that Shorty want pleased. He
waited = leetle while, then he hoped up
en- ssid.
:" 'Htumpy jackson, yer got gab 'puff
when Il comes to swearin', an / figger
that you could fling out few remarks
on this ercasion II yer tried
~ hain't no speaker, said Stumpy,
an I'd ruther be excused.
"'Look yere, Stumpy, said Shorty,
we amt goin' to hev no snealxin' out o.
iooties In this business. just you rise
up thar an set your mouth a goin', win
yer
"stumpy see that he war in fer 1t, 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. /
think that ther Judas chap what parson
read bout wuz gol darned scamp, an
I'm agin i'm. TheIn's my notions.
with that Stumpy slid down the
wall to the floor, an the parson talked
little more and then the thing wuz over.
''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 success Of it, you kin just bet.
II never see shorty's head fer taldn' a
interest in what he took hold ON. 'Peared
like when he set in to do thing he Jest
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satisfied less he wuz 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 ther, too.
/ never see sich a change in nobody
mother as there wuz in Shorty He quit
cussin' an fightin' and he never per-
tended to go bout the s'loon no morn II
thar hadn't been sch thing. When
he wasn't at work he wuz readin' the BIZ
BILE, an lots O. times he would set fer
hours singin' them old chunes, and fer
maxim music he wasn't to be snuffled at,
lemme tell ye.
"Wal, we got long fust rate with that
thar Sunday school, and ever Sunday
Shortyd explain to us bout them Script
urs, aud he'd allus give that thar Judas
feller gouge fore he quit. Shorty
never could bar sneak, an / reckon
that Judas wuz as low down an misera-
BILE sneak as ever lived, jedgin' from
what I've heerd bout i'm.
Zone 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
l hgger out that we OF to be baptized, an
this book knows its business, so reckon
well go down to the crick right now
an git that over
"Stumpy hopped up to argy the ques-
tion an come out agin baptizen, but
Shorty shet 'em up in short order an
carried the pint his own way.
ga leetle water won't hurt you, no
how, Stumpy, says Shorty, an reclk-
ON you needn't be 30 powerful skeered
nv it. Yer ought to bathe once in yer
life, anyway, an now's as good a time
as any
"That wuE 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 thet baptism. AS l said,
Shorty carried his pint, an we all filed
out an down the crick, war Shorty put uE
under, an we submitted mouty 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 fer an neaI
'mong the miners, an sometimes people
come as much as thirty miles to see it il
operation. 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 W
long, lemme tell ye, for the fust thing
they know'd Shorty laid down the bool
he wuz readin' from, and pintin' cou
pie O pistols at EN-, said:
"'We're goin' ter hev order in thil
yere shop er know the reason why, an
the next derned galoot that makes {
racket had better say his pra'rs, fel
blamed If don't drop i'm in his tracks
We're glad to hev visitors when they
know nuf to behave themselves, but
when they don't they'd better stay way
or bring their coffins long with 'em
The ssrvices II now purceed' Artel
that Shorty never had no trouble, an
fer four years that Sunday school hai
been runnin' right along, and today
it's Aourishin' Thomas p Mountfor
in brakes Magazine.