St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-11-07

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WN\MNNMAM " understand, I
'sSeSSSSSs had borrowed
the pantry keys from mother, after which
me and Ben Chris had went down under
the hill in orderment tn mix q little
pure spring water with the early run
Minis of the corn. ~, HtsF
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"But sometime and somehow in the
beginnin Andy Lucas was made" Ben
Chris went on-which by this time his
tslkin machinery was limbered up con-
Siderable Esd 40. -
"Accordin to the Scriptsre-whicL
says that mortal man was taken from
the bosom Of the earth5lnd must conse-
quentially retrun back to the same thing.
or words to that extent-I reckon the
good Lord must Of made Andy along
with the rest of human creation. Least
wise the public in general has got Him
charged up with the Job. Some people
are jest naturally proneful to throw OF
all the blame on the good Lord any
how. Rufus. Now n tq. me, / don'f
to say blame Him for the maxim ~
Andy Lucas. Ell He made that lost ana
ruint man, which accordin to the Scrip
ture reckon He did, it was because He
had . whole pasele of odds and ends.
and rakins and scrapins, which He
didn't have no particlar use for, SO He
jest flung the pile together and made a
human bein and called It Andy Lucas.
ITO be certainly recollect that you
and Andy was horned and bred and
brung up together on joinin farms, and
still eat peas from the same dish and
take soup through the same quill to
some extent" says Ben Chris AZ he
went down after his tobacco and put
q fresh bundle in the rack. "Yet still
at the same time. Rufus, don't wear
no paddock on my mouth as anybody
knows Of. and don't mind tellin you
the naked unwashed truth though It
breaks up the plan of salvation and
brings OH another war between the
United States. 81. So.
"But what put in to tell you about
was the trip which Andy made lown
into the old Panther Creek settlement
durin the dark nights and hot days
Of August, and what a tremendous wide
row he weeded around at the big pro-
tracted meetins. As for me, was too
monstrous busy pullin down and stack
in up my fodder right along abou. that
time, and I couldn't turn out to the
meetins any to speak of only on Sat-
urtoys and Sundays. But Andy he re-
manned over and tarried in the settle
ment somethin better than three weeks
and took in all the big meetins indurin
of that time. When he first rid into the
range he turned his horse in my lot
and made our house his general head
quarters, though I didn't lay eyes on
HIM more than oncst or twicst q week
whilst he tarried down there amongst
u. Still at the same time could hear
some news from Andy every day in
the week. .--
1.-THE very next day after Andy showed
down in the Panther Greek country me
and him went to big Methodist 4eetin
over at Long Creek church, whefe they
had three sermonts day and dinner on
the grounds-which, you understand,
that was on a Sunday. And late that
evenin when I got ready tn start OF on
my return back home 10 and behold there
was Andy Lucas! Finally at last 1
found him, and where do you reckon ne
was? He was way OH down there in the
woods behind big pine log with old
Parson Raynor--which the parson had
Andy down on his knees and was pray
in for him in . deep and fervent voice. |
He was pleadin in dead earnest with |
both eyes shet, and consequentially he |
didn't see me. But Andy caught sight |
Of me, and when he did he closed his |
left eye slow and KNOWN like and waved |
his hand at me to go on back. And
then, when presently him and the old
parson come up ont of the woods, the |
great horsetrader had his pocket hand
kerchief in one hand and a prayer |
book in the other. whilst his face was
pulled out as long as your arm. They
then shook the partin hand and spoke
. sad farewell. The good old parson
went on his way rejoicin In the hope,
and that blame fellow Lucas come to me
and said. said he:
ben Chris, from the way the cards
are runnin now and the general circum-
Of the calamity, reckon you
will have to return back home alone by
yourself. I don't zee how I could go
with you this evenin. I feel called to re-
main over at this meetin and tarry
around amongst the brethren for few
days longer. Whilst the lamp holds out
to burn the durndest sinner maybe
mought return, and II tear myself
away right sfoW I expect the meetin
would come to q student close. But
there is- grounds for hope and room for
great sejoicin and material to work
on 50 long as / remain over and
tarry around the mourneTs' bench 20
reglar and 80 frequent. In that regards
you must reocllect, Ben Chris, that am
! full blood grandson Of ole Hiram Luz
cas, which they tell me he was the hard
ut customer and the most wickedestj
inner that ever drove horse trade or
spit cuss words in al these regions
round. Whereas you can see how and
why they will run this mcetin several
lays longer-with three sermonts 81
lay and dinnGf q the grousds-if they
have any hopes Of pullin your humble
'ervant, the grandson Of old Hiram
Lucas--which he was whole team and
! holy terror in his day and generation
ION board Of the Old Ship. with her