The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-13
OLD MAN GREENLAW
TEACHES A LESSON
sing Deacon Bcesly's Luck in
the Poker Game as
Parable.
RLA!SDEIL TNCONVINCED


"Thom that's helt up 10 he the wisest
Is sometimes the ones what en- he
d'pended onto TO- to act plumb foolish
when It comes to Emergency" said
old man Greenlaw as one who rumi-
mates. They want but three on 'en
in Sodoman Tomorrah. 'cordn' to the
Good Book. an look at what they done.
Pears what Lot an his wife done
waned 'em how they was heap %
trouble comm, an Lot says what him
an Mis- Lot was gwine down into the
wilderness TO- to git away till aver the
disturbance bowed over.
But them three reckoned they
knowed a trick with two o that. an
look what they done, They was some
prominent in the c'munity at That. an
pears like they'd ought 70 to knowed
better. They didn't nobody have but
one name back in the dark ages when
this yer done happened. an them three
was named Athos Porthos an Abed-
nego. Lawd knows how they come to
have SIGH curious names, bur pears like
they want nobody much better Of
them days.
We'll, they was c'nsid'able biggity
ike them that has reputation TO bcin
80 nell roarln' wise gen ~ Is, an stead
o goin' with Mister an Mis-, Lot down
in The wilderness, where hey "A been
some safe TO spell anyway.ehey done
went to sea In bowl an was fetched
back an chucked into a fiery furnace
what was het up seven times as hot as
4, could be het."
Having said 81 nuch tho old man
paused IA select = fresh cigar from a
box which h.. produced from behind the
bar in his little saloon in Arkansas CIV
and having lighted # ne smoked a while
In silence see,inglv l,s, in contemnIa
tior Of tho mechanically fate ~ tho nm
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- ,n,d', s,,d IaLe yyin,.rho,tom
"but sur,. tonl, No rro,t int'r.sr into
,o,, .pe,rs IKE vve mon il y,t apo,ieh
80 ,b,nls nhout with wb,t's hin did
~ ,th,ut.n s,i,,i,, ba, nm n,.. !. WHATS
d,r, hoo, did afo, va was thousbt of
"-,bat ,ir', Tho mint" said nId ma,
crson,aw win a, air ,t s,inerinritv.
.rbav yo,,I,in'i he no moral lessons 20
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CAS- did in mo midsIo a,,es y"
"Ner mi. yer st,rv vo. all is ,.rin
mars to he some ertertainin'" said
Ia. passa,, .,br, d,r't = q. ma gra't
r,oraI lesson int :, Pears ike II
.cattars too much"
"NoraI Is how ,hev ain,t no sense in
holm, So, al, ,ireJ ,,.tso. LA tho Ia man
"If Atbos porthos an Abednego hadn't
l,o1Ycd 50 much ma, n they reckoned
,b.v did likely they might a listened IN
reason but Them that knows IL all don't
penpv know 7othin', puts mo in mind
az o,d De,cor R,esIv a. Greenyille.'
Sam pearsall left the room
,.The deacon WAS one o. them what
thew couldn't nobody tell him nothin' :.
J know because him an me useter argy
things out from time 10 time, when they
want nothin' ,hddin' at the tavern,
where done KEEP bar an never heard
him say nothin' what had grain o.
Sense into it,
Even at that, he was Cnsid'able Of
81 man. I'seter raise niggers TO the
market afo the wah. an o co'se they
want nobody had no 'pinion, of him
ill after he done 'cumulated prop'ty
Ike he done in his old age, beins
'twa MT reckoned respectable TO- To sell
ringers 70 business % co'se, If a
man had mo- n he wanted, or II he was
reduced in cirCumstants II was all right
70 to sell en-, but the sentiment o the
''munity wouldn't stand TO- nobody
maxim business of it. O co'se, buyin
en- vas different.
SO just nachnly he want no deacon
them days, nor nothin else hut just q
plain, low down niger trader till a'ter he