The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-04-01
The OLD Cat and the bible.

NAV" said Bainbridge Thomas, as
he laid down the Duncan County News
and looked over to where his wife was
knitting. "Maw, | see that Doctor Buck
ley has said that the Bible hain't infal.
lible,"
Mrs. Thomas did not stop the rapid
play of her fingers among the clicking
needles, but merely glanced over the top
of her spectacles. fitting her head for
ward trtle to do 80, and responded to
her spouse's remark with slight
clearing OF her throat. She knew he
would continue to talk until he had freed
his mind, and she preferred to reserve
her remarks to the last.
cambridge stopped over and adjusted
the wood that was burning in the re-
place, then he sat up, brushed the ashes
from his hands assumed the air of one
who has remarks to make, and plenty of
time in which to make them, and con-
tnued
doctor Buckley, you know, is the
editor of the Christian Advocate in New
York. The Paiseys over on Sugar Creek
take it cause Miss Paisley is from York
State. Buckley is considered to be con.
sid'able some in onr church, an jis'
CANT make out exactly what it all mea MS
The News here says they was meetin'
in New York and he got mp an said that
they was mistakes in the Bible and that
lots o. people thought so; an then the
other preachers jumped onto him an
they had lively argument"
Mrs. Thomas went on knitting. Balm.
bridge waited awhile then suggested
That was kind o. funny, wuzn't it,
now?"
Mrs. Thomas hitched up hank of
yarn from her lap, looked at her husband
again as though she was abont to reply,
and then became reabsorbed in the stock.
ing that she was making.
"They's a heap wobbIn' in the old
faith nowadays" observed the old man,
as another attempt to draw out his wife's
view.
Then she said: "You know that old
tomcat, Mig, o. mine?"
Yea. The one | shot yes'day"
yea. That's the one. Well, two
week ago the hired man drowned that
cat in the pond. Last week the mule
kicked it, and Abe said he saw it layin'
dead in the barn-lot. Besides that it's
ct all my rat poison up; the boys starved
it once in the oats bin; it's had fits an
the mango, was froze last winter an now
you've finally shot it,"
"Yep. reckon done for it this time
Took 1t right back o. the neck with g
slug"
Certainly" Mrs. Thomas knit on
awhile and then she looked over to hin
and observed: "Bainbridge, that cat il
a sittin' out in the kitchen now behind
the stove, as well and sassy as ever"
"Sho! Yol don't tell me?"
eyes, | do. And what's more, the
old Bible is q goin' right on doin' bust
ness at the old stand, notwithstanding
somebody or mother finds out every few
weeks that it's full o. mistakes. | s'pose
they air few words got mixed up in
handlin' an few sentences got twisted
an things like that, but they hain't
found no book yet IN the place Of the
Bible that folks want to keep their family
records in, nor to have read out OF al
their funerals, nor to hear when they're
sick and think their dyin' or are in
trouble, or wantin' to lead better lives
"But do you s'pose Buckley really said
that"
Don't keer if he did or didn't II he
did he probly meant somethin' heap
different from what the papers make out
They's lot o. people raises rumpui
every once in awhile as though the Bible
and everything generally was fallin
over, but them folks don't scare me at
much az they used to when was
younger"