The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-26

ed the church door, and started up the
aisle, looking this way and that way
for seat while the preacher was GO
ing on with his ilustf.at on, thus:
es, my dear hearers, that man stole
sheep" (By this time everybody
eyes were on the young doctor, whose
face was as red as a beet) He stole
sheep. The lowest down thing any
man ever did was stealing a sheep
a poor. inoffensive sheep. That man
was caught ] am sorry to say. with
sheep on his shoulder, he was car
ried before the court and convicted,
and whipped at the whipping post,
(by which time the doctor. with every
one in the house gazing al him, had
found a seat, and the preacher finish
ed his illustration thus:) He was ac-
tually whipped at the whipping post;
but, my dear friends, this great Sal
walton can make gentleman of as
mean a man as that
The doctor, when he took his seat,
looked as if he had really stolen a
sheep, but, the preacher was wholly
unconscious of having made him run
such terrible gauntlet.
! am inclined to think I've wander
ed from my subject; but, ! guess the
reader don't care, as there was but
precious little in II. nd I've managed
to get but little out.
St Paul said be not unequally yok-
cd together; and, while we know he
had no reference to lean and fat
peoples marrying to save my life !
can't help thinking, when l see "a
hundred and twenty-five pound fellow
voked to a two-hundred and fifty
pound woman Paul's advice has been
disregarded.
only few days ago | saw yoke
of that kind. | suppose the man
would have tipped the scales at a
hundred and fifteen or perhaps TWEEN
ty: but the w fe, by whose side the
husband trotted along would have
weighed. but | guess | had better
not try to guess her weight. Suffice
is to say she looked like five-hun-
dred pound bale of cotton, perambu-
lating around.
But she couldn't help it, and | think
none the less of her because of her
size. | don't suppose her husband did,
for he seemed to be in fiue humor
and smiled every time she spoke to
him. Most women have an aversion
to being fat; i'm fact some are very
much inclined to be sensitive about it
don't like for people to intimate
that they are & little inclined to be
U "a
quickly and look hurt if anything is
said about their weighing over a hun
dred and twenty-five; or if one init
mates they are n little above size.
A street car was pretty well filled,
when three or four ladies entered. BY
the side Of Il very large lady sat n
little boy. The large lady said to
| the boy: ar vou'll get up, my little
man, ono Of the ladies. at least. can
have n seat.
IF you'll get up, nam, all the la
dies can have seats" replid he inno-
Gently.
The fat lady didn't say word. but
bestowed look ON the boy which he
| interpreted to mean that he had told
a story.
To which look the boy replied 81
bet they could. for you'se four times
| bigger'n me-"
Every body will join me in saying.
| that was a pert boy, and ought to
| have had his jaws spanked; but, ali
| the same, the passengers couldn't help
smiling.
| It's "A rare thing to see a husband
and wife fleshy alike: and / guess its
| best that they should not be, as they
might be in each 6ther's way. I've