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

Warnt WorHn but TO play keerda an
drink whisky, an 80 we sorter slid down
hill into cussedness, and got to be bout
the hardest lot ever feller see.
"But one day long In spring, bout
four years ago, feller come long over
thar holdin' meetin's an Sunday schools.
When he fist struck Horsethief Pass we
didn't take much to i'm, an some O the
fellers talked right smart bout givin'
i'm coat O tar an feathers an ridin'
i'm outen the camp, an reckon they'd
done it but for leetle carcumstance
whut happened Jest then.
"You see old Shorty Brown wuK the
leader in the camp, an every feller
swore by him through thick an thin
Shorty wuz powerful wicked an could
out cuss dozen common fellers, but he
had heart in him bigger n punlCin an
nd do anything to help the boys out.
oval, bout the time they wuz tallKin'
o. tarrin the preacher Shorty he got hurt
in the mine, an fer week wuz powerful
bad off. We got ter thinkin' he'd reached
the end o. his Iced an that he'd hev ter
cross over the range. Shorty'd been the
wust feller in the camp agin the preacher
and it wuz him that proposed the tar and
feathers, so when he got hurt the others
dropped the matter, an waited fer him to
git well if hs wuz goin' to.
1--WE wuz workin' like eve'thing then
to git new mine opened, an we didn't
hev much chance to look after Shorty.
so we had to leave i'm to git long by
hisseR. That preacher, he see how it
wuz, an blame my skin If he didn't Jest
go right down to Shorty's cabin, an fling
off his coat an turn nuss. An he stayed
by Shorty jest like a mother, an waited
on i'm an give i'm medicine till he pulled
through all right an got well.
after that we all Thought good deal
more of the preacher an as for Shorty
wal, reckon he'd made short O any
body who'd said word agin him.
Shorty wasn't man to go back on a
friend, an he never forgot favor. AS
soon as Shorty was able TO git about he
comes down to the saloon whar we usu-
ally round o nights an he says:
Boys, the parsons goin' to preach
down at my cabin tonight, an want
ever last one o. We to come.
WANT none of us hankerin' to go,
but we could tell by the way Shorty
spoke that he wuz in dead earnest bout
il, an we knowed it wouldn't be extry
healthy to refuse, 80 we agreed to come.
" An want you TO bar in min, save
Shorty, that the preachers my friend,
an that he's got to be treated white
want you fellers to behave an act de
cent, an if any galoot disturbs the meet
in, blamed if don't put hole through
i'm on the spot
''Shorty'd done it, too, an we
knowed it, so you may jest bet yer last
dollar that we wuz moughty we'll be-
haved congregation that night as We
squatted agin the wall o Shorty's cabin
an listened to the sarmont.
cat fust didn't take no special inter
est in what the preacher said, an reckon
none o the others didn't neither, but af
ter he'd talked on while he kinder
warmed up to business, an fer bout
hour he talked powerful eloquent, shore
an the way he ripped them old rascali
away back ther' to Jerusalem wuE
caution. Before he'd gone very far W,
all got powerful interested, an could (
listened heap longer if he'd KEEP on.
"After that we tuck to goin' to meetin
regular, an afore many nights we got Il
lookin' forrard through the day, an
feelin sorter anxious to hev night com,
an with it another sarmont Short,
alters set up in front along O. thu
preacher an sometimes when looked
up thar an see him 30 solemn like an
remembered how he ust to cuss it wa
bout all could do to keep from laughin
right out.
"Wal, the meetin's KEEP on fer wes'-
an then one night the preacher said Ia
Ieckeneu we or 10 heV SUNDAY school
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