Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-10-26

All Of the regulars sat In front of
the corner grocery over in the joyous
land of Jersey. Some of them had
taken off their boots to dump out the
wheat chaf, while the others were
trying to butt in on the general line
Of talk The dog had just found de-
parted rat and was trying to bury it
n the sugar barrel and the cat was
wing under the spigot of the kerosene
tank in an attempt to kill off some OF
Is ileas. The groceryman was busi-
Iy engaged in batting mouse trap
With piece of communicated,
cheese
Boys" sad PHI Jones. as he once
!aore pushed lis ~ Lack into his
aoot, IS pose ye neerd all about Frecl1.
ies?''
kalkerlate we didn't, then" was
Ire chorused reply. What is it this
line, appenj j9,fcyties or loss of appe-
.ite?"
amt neither one It's wussern
both He is in disgrace ag'in and the
t@acon's got him locked up in the
wagon house fer two weeks Unless he
lnaWs out sooner. S'pose yer all
heered OF the package party? No?
Well, package party is one Of them
things when you pay nOthin' to get in,
Hut yer have to ta'.e a package of
& of h in uyhi icb {c
tnd is knocl,ed down to the highest
bidder, sight on seen.
treckIes was all puzzled up as 70
what to take, so he went to the deac-
Oh. who was runntn the party fer the
denefit Of the church an himself, an
frecfles took UP the deacon on his
first chop. During the day he ketched
about four dozen mice in tber barn
packed them in neat-lookin' shoe
box and started fer the party as hap
pg as kioodle on the trail of rab-
bit.
What am bid for this beautiful
fackage? sez the main guy at the
church. next to the deacon, of course.
Five cents sez one: Ten cents, sez
another: Fifteen ceats,' seq jim Hol
lefless: Twenty cents sez the deac
ems cid maid sister Off to the flow
er Of ther aock. sez tie main guy. and
the old maid tiel1led all over like
LATED the same as she used to giggle
thirty .7ears ago. Jim Holleregs, who
Is stuck on her. whispered Open it.
sWeetie, an ther old maid blushin
like the hair GA red COW, busted the
string
Next she took off the lid. an then,
1ellers. I'll take my oath, she let out
yell that sounded four miles long
an jumping clean through her collar,
almost left the harness fast to the
wagon. 'De2rie. are yer dyin'?' sez
jim. and the next minet a couple of
the mice fell in his boots. an he had
business with his feet By this time
the old maid had reached the stove,
an. putin both arms around ther
pipe, she began to lick off the polish
an putin both arms around ther
I'd like to, Mirandy,' sez jim, but
I've got EN- too
We'll, sir, to make a long story
die out sooner in Just two seconds.
thet congregation was up in the air.
or as far as they could git without
climbin trees, an even ther brave
old deacon ID his head buried in the
coal scuttle an his feet hung up on
top Of a winder sill. while his wife an
darter kicked over the bibles an
map Of Jerusalem in tryin to get out
on the roof
Wei sir, it TUX two hours to
straighten out that package party an
even at thet all tae old girls wen,
wadin around with their skirts tucked
mp like bathin' suits down to Allan
tic. Frechles vas the only one oncon
sarned. an tibet give him dead away
The deacon TUX him aside. spoke feel
lngly to him an the poor Kid went
home in a h y wagon. Since then he
has been locked up in the wagon
house, an ther deacon SEE he don't
come down till he is converted. -
Ptttsburg Telegraph.