The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-03
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Gettirx Out Of II.
(By DON La Grange.

Deacon Strotne1S ana u11 MAA0 -.
eating supper when she said to him
across tho table:
Moses. IL / should die. would you
marry again r.
ssBiess me, but what q question" he
replied as he choked.
.But I should like to know.
ut Amt likely that would.
''You believe I'll go to heaven when
/ die. don't your"
s.Strait as q crow flies.
And how'd feel lool1ln down
"But the angels in heaven can't look
down on earth"
at is said they can't. but how does
anybody know they can't
the deacon as he helped himself to
some more.
His wife was q Christian woman and
q church member, but nevertheless
there we're times when she wanted 70
know, you know. and he found II safer
to choke her off than to argue with
her. He was hoping he had In this
case when she said:
Eyes, I'VE wot knack Of mashin'
tatere, and you'll miss me when I'm
gone. How about my question. Moses
you'll probably outiive me py ten
II probably went and want to
know IL you win marry AGAIN..
mo, sir. Shouldn't!
The deacon was vexed with ler per-
sistency, and he brought out MS an
sWer with an emphasis.
.'AH right" said the wife and began
talking something else
Next day she and another women
were drowned by the upsetttng OF q
boat on the river. The deacon. who
was over fiftys:was overwhelmed for q
time, but gradually his grief wore
away and he was like himself again.
It is not commended that he was an
absentminded. man, but IT - stated
the first month the deacon did not
think Of that promise again for four
years. Then It came like knockout
blow Bit by bit he had come to be
friends with the widow Stevens He
had sat on her doorstep; he had sat
by her fire: he had hoed In her gar
den; he had split wood for her cook
stove. Aye, he had called her Sarah,
and she had called him Noses One
evening he had talk with himself
beginning With
"By the great horn spoon. but that
widder can make a custard tit for q
king"
And then: Deacon. you have been
widower for four years-for four
long years. You have been sad and
lonely. It hasscome mighty hard"
There's folks winkin' and blinkin'
oronnd ana savfns that me and the
widdar will make n match Of it. but
let 'em wink and blink. It hain't none
Of their pesky business. and l have told
Then, with a chuckle:
'.ItswOuldnt be a bad match for eth
er me OF u.s. LONE If where the nus
band and $780, IL and we've neither
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