The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-01-30

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the Kafflr storeman. His work was
to load and unload. and he never need
ed to smile except when he liked, and
he never told lies.
"The other clerks gave me the name
Of old Salvation but there was one
person liked very much. He was
clerk in another store. He often went
past the door. He seemed to me not
like others. His face was bright and
fresh, like little child's. When he
came to the shop, felt / liked him.
One day saw book in his pocket,
and that made me feel near him.
asked him if he was fond Of reading,
and he said yes. when there was moth
Ing else to do. The next day he came
to me and asked me IL did not feel
lonely. He never saw me going out
: with the other fellows He would
come and see me that evening, he said.
you've got rummy place here he
said.
''You see, there was nothing in it but
packing cases for furniture, and It was
rather empty. While was putting the
food on the box he looked at my books.
He read their names out aloud-'Ele-
mentary Physiology First Principles
"'Gollyv he said. I've got lot Of
dry stuff like that at home got for
Sunday school prizes. but only keep
them to light my pipe with now They
come in handy for that Then he ask
ed me if had ever read book called
the Black Eyed Creole That is the
style for me- he said-there where the
fellow takes the niger girl by the arm
and the other fellow cuts off. That's
! what like
But what he said after that l don't
remember, only 1t made me feel as if
We're having a bad dream, and
wanted to be far away.
after he was gone my little room
got back to its old look loved it so.
was SO glad to get into 1t at night,
| and 1t seemed to be reproducing me for
bringing him there. The next day he
took the gray mare. On Thursday he
! did not bring her back. and on Friday
/ | found the saddle and bride standing
| at my door.
AL StiS gu tVl dOOl IC lOOhCo l1tO Lie
! shop and called out: Hope you got
| your saddle, Farber. Your bag of
| bones kicked out six miles from this.
| LII send you couple of shillings to-
morrow, though the old hide wasn't
worth it. Good morning.
But l sprang over the. counter and
| got him by his throat. Ny father was
/ SO gentle with her. He never would
ride her up hill, and now this fellow
/ had murdered her. / asked him where
he had killed her and shook him till
he slipped out of my hand. He stood
/ in the door grinning.
1T didn't take much to kill that bag
Of bones, whose master sleeps in q
| packing case and waits till his compa-
ny's finished to eat on the plate.
Shouldn't wonder if you fed her on
sugar bags he said. And If you think
Pye jumped her you'd better go and
look yourself. You'll find her along the
road by the "aas-vogels" that are eat
ing her.
Il caught him by his collar. and
lifted him from the ground, and
threw him out into the street. half way
across 1t. | heard the bookkeeper say
to the clerk that there was always the
devil in those mum fellows, but they
never called me Salvation after that.
81 am writing to you of very small
things, but there is nothing else to tell.
1t has been all small, and you win like
it. Whenever anything has happened
I have always thought would tell it
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is always you. After that only one
old man came to visit me. | had seen
him in the streets often. He always
wore very dirty black clothes and hat
with Grape round it. and he had one
eye, SO l noticed him. One day he.
came to my room with subscription
list for minister's salary. When
said had nothing to give, he looked
at me with his one eye.
Young man. he said, how is it
never see you in the house of the
Lord?' | thought he was trying to do
good, SO felt sorry for him, and told
him never went to chapel Young
man. he said, it grieves me to hear
such goddess words from the lips Of
one so young, SO far gone in the paths
Of destruction. Young man, If you for
get God, God will forget you. There is
seat on the right hand side as you go
at the bottom door that you may get.
If you are given over to the enjoy
ments and frivolities Of this world,
what will become of your never dying
SOUL?
"He would not go till gave him halt
crown for the minister's salary. Aft
erward heard he was the man who
collected the pew rents and got per.
centage. didn't get to know any one
else.
when my time in that shop was
} done, hired myself to drive one Of 9
transport riders wagons
'"That first morning when | sat In
. the front and called to my oxen and
2 saw nothing about me but the hills
> with the blue coming down to them
7 and the 'karroo' bushes l was drunk