The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-10

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 that he was all fattygpoed and faint. he l would take jest Q ilttid mite if Cy would be so kind as to pull down the blines
 so that passersby from the street couldn't see what was going on. being as it was
 none of their business So Cy he pulled down the shades and the Deacon poured out tumblerfull and drunk it off at one fell Ruip. The Deacon told Cy right then and there that he had tasted good many different kinds of licxers, including alco- hol split, but in all his virtuous career he had never put nothing down his neck that had the aroma and nectar flavor of that rye whiskey The Deacon told Cy that he had really ought to of drunk that first tumbIerfull a little mite slow CT. because he Nyas afraid he hadn't got the full flavor of 1t gulping it down like
 that, so Cy told the Deacon to have an
 other tumbIerfuli, which the Deacon done. slipping 1t slowly and enjoying every drop of 1t.
 Well, to make long story short the
 Deacon got very talkative and forgot
 that he had some spike nails for which
 Lem Brown was waiting and 1t is likely that the Deacon would of remained at Cy's all day if 1t hadn't been that Cy asked the Deacon what he had in that
 package which he had laid on the table. Then the Deacon remembered and said
 he must go right on and t@lxe them spike
 nails to Lem who was probably wonder ing what the thunderashfUn had became of hini.e So the Deacon left Cys place and falling down fhe front steps and losa Ing his hat which Cy found for him and placed on his head and helped him out to the sidewalk. There the Deacon got his hand on the fence along the sidewalk and with the assistance of the fence he finally got back home where Lem was waiting for him. Now everybody knows that Lem Brown has got red whislkers and that they hang down. about nine inches from his chin. They would be called long whiskers, but they amt any thing like as long as they looked to the Deacon whose 'vishion seemed to be i'm paired by the second glass Of Ticker. When the Deacon walked into the yard and seen Lem standing up on the scaf-
 folding, the Deacon says to Lem, My senses, Lem, I hever knowed you had sich long wiiiskers!--they reach clean
 down to your knees, don't they?" Lem.
 who was all out of bashIenee waiting for the Deacon and who didn't know he had had anything to drink, says. Never mind about my whiskerg, but
 gimme them spikes and hand me up that board there Iayih' behint you" The Deacon he went to hand the spikes to Lem, and let them fall and the parcel broke and they spilled in the tall grass where Lem had to geGdown on his hands
 and knees .afterward to look for them
 Then the Deacon went to pick up the
 board but lost hls balance and feli on
 his head when he went to stoop over.
 tanning his hat clean down over his
 ears so he had turrible hard work get
 tin 1t off afterwards. when this han pened the Deacon quoted a little scripter
 incorrectly and when he got on his feet
 again he reached again for the hoard
 and got hold of plantain weed which
 he pulled. up, roots and all. ana held
 that up to Lem. This made Lem mad
 and he asked the Deacon swhat in th,In-
 derashion was the, matter with him.
 The Deacon said he didn't know what
 was the matter with him except he felt
 happier than he had ever felt in all his
 life before Soon as Lem got A vvbiff
 of the Deacon's breth he lnowed that he
 had been drinkin and asked the Deacon
 where he got his flicker and the Deacon
 told him that Cy HoskiHs had got a gal of Old Hancock from Kentucky where
 upon Lem throwed down his tools and
 started for cys at once leaving the Dea- con alone. After Lem had went the Deacon set
 down on the back piazzer and begin to
 sing aOld Hunderd" as loud as he could
 sing and the Widow Skinner who lives
 next door heard him and seen him settin,
 there singin' and walked across 10 the
 Deacon and asked him. if there was any
 thing serious the matter with him and
 soon as the Deacon seen the Widow he
 jumped up and grabbed her and throwed
 his arms around her and kissed her on
 the ear and told her that he loved her
 madly. |
 Widow Skinner who Is respectable
 woman slapped the Deacon's face for
 him and rushed into the Deacon's house
 and hollered for Mrs. Bradbury who was
 upstairs making the beds and she come
 down and the Widow told her how Ahe
 Deacon had insulted her and she went
 out and when she seen that the Deacon
 was intoxicated she grabbed him by the scrhR of the neck and dragged him into
 the house and made him go to bed on the
 lounge where he sung all the songsA he
 knowed for hour or~Swo after which he
 dropped of to sleep and slep until nearly
 night>when he woke with splitJin' head