The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-12-23

on the reserved seats In front OF the
little pulpit. improvised from the bar
rels the elephants stand on, and some
OF them laughed and said: Hello.
Bill" and "Ah. there!" and Get on 70
his collar" and lot Of other things.
The little husky preacher had Sal
walton Army girl to play the melodeon,
and he didn't take any notice Of the
remarks the boys made. except 70 see
his jaws together and moisten his lips
Finally they were all seated, and 10
got up to open the services. when =
big canvasman, regular Smart Aleck,
got up on a seat and said: -Pardner.
how you going to open this jack pot
The crowd laughed and the preacher
pulled his long blue gun up out OF his
pocket, and laid It on the barrel. and
then picked 1t up and pointed9it at the
big canvasman and said: This game
is going to be opened with this hand
seven of kind. all As caliber. dunn
dunn bullets, and unless you cit down
/ quick will send mess of bullets into
| your carcass right where your heart
ought to be. II you open your mouth
again before / say amen! real loud 1t
| the close OF the services, will shoot
all your front teeth out. Do you COM
prehend? II 80. be seated"
The big fellow dropped on to the
blue seat, as though he had been hit
with a piledriver, and the crowd was
so tickled to have the bully's BLUM
called. that they cheered the preacher.
| Then he said: I'VE will now open this
| jack pot with singing and shall keep
one eye on the gentleman who was
| last UP, but who Is now seated pretty
low down."
You could have heard pin drop.
The preacher wiped his face calmly,
and said: "We will now sing and ex-
pect every man will sing, and to that
end | will appoint Big Ike, who asked
me how was going to open this jack
pot, to come down in front of the seats
and lead In the singing, for | know
by his voice, which heard in debate,
that he is crackerjack," and the
preacher took hold of the handle OF the
blue gun and Big Ike walked down
through the rows of seats, and as the
| melodeon began to sQuawk, Ike got
down in front Of the audience, and
some of the boys said: Bully for you,
Ike" and after scratching his head q
minute Ike turned and walked to-
wards the preacher, at the edge oil
the ring, and thought there was 60.
ing to be the worst fight ever was, and
as the preacher reached for the gun J
crawled under the seat, and naeked Out
between the legs of fat man, but Ike
walked up to the minister and, said.
as the melodeon began to cough:
Boys, this tune Is on Ike" He started
1t and every man sang.
When 1t was ended the boys clapped
and stamped for an encore, and they
sang 1t through again, and the face Of
the preached beamed with Joy, and ]
saw there was not going to be any
fight and crawled out from under the
seats.
Pa came in the tent just then, with
a new suit of clothes on, having been
| discharged from the hospital as cured
of yellow fever, and gave him my
seat, and he held me In his lap.
The preacher then preached q sermon
that did them all good. He dwelt upon
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them such good advice that when Ii
was all over and he said he wanted to
shake hands with every man in the
bunch, Ike marshaled them all up to
, the ring and introduced them, and no
minister ever was more cordially con-
graduated, and they wanted him to
| go along with the show, and preach ev-
cry Sunday.
The preacher said he couldn't join
the show, but he travelled around .
good deal and he would probably be
in the same town with the show sew
eral times during the summer and he
would drop In on them occasionally
and keep them straight.
Pa was watching the crowd for
the sailor who prescribes cayenne
pepper for yellow fever, and when
he saw the sailor come up to the
4 minister, with tears In his eyes, and say:
"Parson, I has been bad man and
killed man once, but he was Portu-
i guese sailor, and he had the drop on me.
the same as you did on Big Ike At the
opening OF these proceedings, and had
to kill him. And begs the pardon Of
this old gentleman for lying to him"
And then pa shook hands with the
sailor and the parson, and the parson
put his blue gun down his trousers leg.
and said by the way, the bulldog
you were going to let take lunch on
me. is he all right7"
Then the parson and the girl went
away, and the boys carried out the
melodeon, and the quarantine was de-
clared on. After dinner the boys
took down the tents and put them on
the train that Sunday afternoon. sing
ing decent songs ~ they pulled up the
stakes and rolled up tho canvas, ana
on the train, late In the night W.
could hear "Old Hundred" being sung
a. the cars ran through the pennyrial
district of Indiana.
Z Some Of 1lissouri's Doasts.
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