New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-30

with milk he would whoof It up into his mouth
and his nose, and his eyes too guess and then he
would blow 1t galley-west all over me And he
blatted all night long till my folks was most dead
for want of sleep. Now YOU may say It was on
account Of wcanin him. and that it wa r.. witches.
but listen When / FIRST suspected that the calf
bewitched | remembered what my Grand
mother Bassctt told me about such things and I
locked his tail and trimmed his ears clus with
pair of sheep shears, and that calf amt yapped
blat sence.'
He spanked his palm on his knee and snapped
triumphant mods of his head around the circle d
faces.
Vets Lovekin went and got a crouch against
Uncle Bella" explained the deacon, because Be-e
laughed at him for calling oxen STAFFORD, Gee
Haw, and 'Labo'rd. Gee Haw. Now all Is, l-
continued, rising and buttoning his coat.
committee proposes to have understanding vi.
this sailor man who shets his house against us ANS
worships brazen images of perdition and amt l--
and aboveboard as a neighbor should be, and per-
forms the work of the devil in more ways than IL
got time to mention He has been seen night a--a-
night-but l will say more now"
Anyway, it's time the ways Of darkness as
opened up" said one of the women, and the eyes
of the rest cleaned with curiosity The ra=..r
then may have understood what dominant .-s.-
actuated this delegation but he only inquired
meekly:
What do you propose to dO?"
First. intend to have you, as shepherd
the flock lead us to his house. There is strel-t.
in numbers, even against the terror thai rl--h
night. When we are there, then YOU can follow
the usual course laid down by the old laws.
But l don't know Your old laws, falrerei THE
little parsOn. Il never was called upon for anything
of this sort before and cannot feel that 1t lies
the path of my duty, either" He dared to bride
a little
The true shepherd viii always find that sermons
and class-meetings and weddins and funerals AIM
all there is TO pastoral uInstrationsi" the deacon
declared with Just as much heat.
He stuck up his blunt hand fingers spread IKE
fans ribs, and began TO bend down the S-e.
counters one after the other: First, YOU ~-.-.f
stand at the foot of the bed if we catch him c.-e
and Conjure him by the tears of the saints and --
apostles to weep. II he can't shed tears, then
a witch. Second"
But-but-" stammered the pastor, the
beard-bOrdered face of the uastcr-ruarIDcr r0r-t.
into his mind S eve. Brother Lovekin is a man d..
very violent passions, so 1 have heard, and he
not be willing to weep, and he might
You'll have the sword and bucIer of the t1-.
and the spirit" roared the deacon. "anI -re-.
true and tried saints here VIII be marshaled al .-
back. You amt afraid, be you' I should hate d.
think that the Palermo Union Church wa nit .ei
by man that mighty in the Lord and in faith
a giant" An emphatic murmur from the cl---e
indorsed this utterance.
The little minister sat on the edge OF his chair
and TREMENDOUSLY patted his nnger-tlps together
1T seems to me-" he eXposyulatej desperately,
that 1t would be better for Deacon Hoblev
10 apply these tests He
seems TO have studied the