The Grenada sentinel., 1906-03-03

ING HIM AT THE STAKE"
for three months. He found out about
the Liars club at an early date and
insisted that the weekly meetings be
held at his room in the tavern.
1t was at this first meeting that the
Jericho liars discovered what poor imi-
tations they were. They told their best
lies, and yet the stranger lying there
with broken leg Quilted them SO cas-
liz and so handsomely that they were
discouraged. lie saw 1t and felt sorry
for them, and at the second meeting he
offered to give them lessons. All ac-
cepted the offer, and from that date on
for ten years the Jericho Liars club
had no rival Of consequence. Every
Saturday night after the lightning rod
man had gone limping on his way there
was meeting at the postoffice. Good
heart Johnson was the first president,
and after him came Truthful Smith.
When the first meeting had been called
to order the president rubbed his hands
and smiled and said:
I'VE will now hear from Elder Hick-
son. If he don't mind, he will tell us
wolf story"
The elder was a good man-none bet
ter-and he wouldn't have told lie
outside Of the Liars club for q hun
dred bushels of potatoes. That wolf
story Of his was yarn pure and sim
pie, but he had told it SO many times
that he had come to believe it. It al
ways took him just twenty-eight min
utes to tell it, as he had to work in a
lot Of snarls and growls and hunt up an
ak to kill the wolf with, but nobody
ever complained. When the elder had
finished and Che audience had got
through holding its breath and shiver-
ing the president would cali ON Uncle
Bill Whitcomb to tell how he was rob-
bed of $1,000 on a Mississippi river |
steamboat and how he came into his
own again by killing two blacklegs |
and wounding third.
AS matter Of fact, Uncle Bill had |
never been fifty miles from home and |
had never had over 500 in his posses
sion at once. He was also man of |
such natural timidity that the calves
chased him around the barnyard. His
story was a thrilling one, however.
The lightning rod man had given him
six lessons in telling it, and some Of his
hearers always held their breath so
long that they had to be thumped on
the back to help them get it again.
Then there was Zadoc Barnham,
with his story about being on board a
ship in the Indian ocean when whale
nit her blow with its tail and made
wreck Of her. He had never even
seen the ocean and nothing more than
The picture Of whale, but men walk
ed three miles to hear him tell that
story. For the first year he frankly
admitted that it was yarn; at the end
Of two years he asserted that it might
have happened; year later he offered
10 make oath that every blessed word
Df it was true.
There were other liars and other lies,
md the club was in such a flourishing .
that the people over at Dobbs 7
Fs-ry were selling their real estate at
my price they could get, when the bell
II fate was set ringing, A new minis 1
er came to the only church in Jericho,
md 1t was not long before he heard of
ne Liars club. He found out what he
0uld and preached a sermon about 1t.
the members were little startled, but
heir next meeting was just as fully at A
ended as ever. When he saw that
hrowing grass would not do, the min.
ster began to throw stones. Every
nember Of the club belonged to his 8
and he called them to-
ether one evening and said:
Brethren, don't want to break I'D
ny Of the social relations of the vii
lge, but the Liars club must 60 Any