Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-02-15

tCu Iutdu IL hlut SO | take 1t.
but that's too late now And. look
ere, when you 'and the plate, just put
in this shillin' for me It's only your
Rev. Mr.. Lacey that I'm sptin'
I've no feelin' of arshness towards anv.
one else, not even to his poor dumb
pig, that knows no better"
I hen MIR. Hardman said good night
and turned off in the direction of his
own house. He was not feeling very
happy; absence from church wis very
unusual with him, and he began to
think that he was being irreligious;
SO he said aloud:
only this afternoon-all my dailiers
too perfectly scandalous!"
But in spite of this he still felt ire
ligious.
1t then occurred to him that as soon
as he got home, he might go through
the church service by himself There
would be no organ, and no surplice
and no offertory; and hymns that you
chose for yourself were not the same
as the hymns that were chosen for you.
Still it will be less irreligious than
nothing at all.
lie had just reached the extremity of
the churchyard wall, when he encoun-
tered Mr.. Lacey's gardener, Henry
Wick; and Henry Wick was smollinga a
short black pipe All the church war
den in Mr. Hardman arose at the sight
of this
Come now, Wick" he said, in rather
severe remonstrance, couldn't you ave
left that pipe till afterwards. You don't
want to go into sacred place of wor-
ship sinking of that stuff"
Henry Wick looked distinctly sullsy
You needn't trouble yourself, Mr.
'Ardman I'm ali right. | amt going
to no sacred place of worship"
Eth? What?" said Hardman, stag
gered by the coincidence.
Wick took his pipe from his mouth,
spat, replaced it, and became voluble
ITS the principle of the thing object
to. wont be spoke to of Sunday
afternoon, and you'd ave thought that
i'm be.n' parsol might ave known
better than to want to do it. 'E says
to me- I've told you FIVE times to
mend that hedge SO that the pig can't
get out So it might be five times, but
I'm gardener, not Il remem berer; still
I'm not a worm and | won't be spoke
to of Sunday afternoon by no man.
Now think of it, it was as much your
fault, Mr.. 'Ardman. if you'll excuse M
for sayin' so, as it was is. pointed
out to i'm that the ole in the edge was
in the right place The pig didn't get
into our garden, only into the paddock.
Then g said that the pig went acrorst
the paddock and got into your garden
and ed just turned it out. So he be-
gan abusin' of me and praisin' OF you.
Mr.. 'Ardman."
"Speak of me, did you? You don't
call to mind no details, suppose,
Wick"
''E said you were good man, and
the best church warden e ever ad, and
you'd got more real talent for gard min
than any man in the parish They
was nice words to use to mel Any'ow,
we've got the new dahlia, and you can't
buy that in shops, nor get it at all ex-
cept by faveyure. I'll lay my life no
one else in Gavisham win get it for two
years to come. 1t amt in the CATER
logs, and e said that e wouldn't ave
you nterfered with and annoyed. Then
c SAID, as C q nave given me notice II
it 'ad been Monday; oweyer, I'll give
i'm notice."
Now, Wick, you just listen to me,
interrupted Hard.nan.
The controversy which followed was
long and illogical, and the more obsti-
nate man prevailed. IIardman was the
more obstinate man,
The result of the controversy was
that Wick knocked out his pipe and
ca cred the church with Ilardnan,
I tribe late. Mr.. Clax ton noticed their
entrance, and worked tho pale yellow
gloves of again undcr cover of the
General Thanksgiving. Mr.. FIardman,
for the first time in his life handed the
r.atc around without wearing gloves at
Ii.
\
Rev. MIR. Lacey sad Mr. Hardman
have both mende,I tEair hodges. Henry
Wick is still in Mr.. Laeoy's service, and
desires to commence an orchid-housc
5.r iiIrdnan possesses n specimen of
tho new dahlia, and has just finished
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