Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-01
DEACON PETT|CREW
MAKES A NEW RULE
|Defies Some of Sacred Principles of
the Game OF Stud
Poker.
TURMOIL ENsuEs, HOWEVER
tesult Is Fatal Shooting-Story
Is Told by Old Nun Grecnlnw to
illustrate Point He Is Trying to
Make.
ny DAVID A. CURTIS.

Don't make such hellOva lot o
"ut renee what kyind of Il haid Il mans
got" said old man Grcenlaw. "if he
Keeps it fastened on an wound up
reg lar. Trouble with most is first or
what thcy don't never wind EN- up an
CONSEQUENT they amt KEEP in runnin'
order Xix" clock al ought TO to be
Ikcpt, an besides tina, they gently leaves
20 on en- INTO II Emergency an don't
,git no use % what little sense they is
INTO EN-. just when it's most ncedod
the wust
Stands TO reason "A mars haid amt
s"inc TO be no grc't service TO him IL
ne don't have il with him when they
/ ~ "a call TO TO use il. ] reckon my
bungstartcr wouldn't be no manner o.
good 10 me IL didn't krow whar to
hhd It case OF II sudden argument.
same way If y man Is to lose his haid
IKE most does Just when they'd ought
10 To have 1t handy.
20 co'sc IL makes c'nsIt'rablo az .
renee what they is into 1t. Them that
mas brain matter into en- is way aboyo
inc aS rage. an they're liable To- TO git
along heap better n if twas i,s,
pain mud but brain matter is cnsid.
aEle sca'cc, an they'll arays be plenty
10 mud = long s tn oil AIississiptIi
Keeps on Dustin lcvecs onct in so often.
so Pears like when the good Lawd
comes 10 make new man He lust
,akes ~hatcver's nigh hand TO- 20 MI up
ms naid with an lots II go at that
MOST sprisin' thing is what the man
aon never come to know the diff'renc.
MS own self. Them that hain't 90,
hothin' but mud to think with 'pears
10 ne heap sight better satisfied with
iheirsclfs n them what has mo- r lesA
nraihs o cosc they amt reel 'ntcl-
Isent. but g long = they don't know
~ they's nigh bout Just as happy g
II they RELY knowed somepin'.
Ihen they's other thing to be
considered. They Is them what has
reel brains an ain't noways Intelligent
Them kyind. the mo- rarnin' they gifts.
the bigger fools they be.
MANY CONSPICUOUS
EXAMPLES ARE CITED
Ihem's the kyind that goes TO Con-
gross or gifts TO be President or some.
pin. Pears like their haids Is like
rifles. Theys powder enough into 'em
TO Nplodc with hellova loud noise
bu, IS long S they hain't got common
sense enough 70 10 lie up with they
gently goes of haif-cocked. Theys
been heap o c'nspic'ous examples
recent
rs done been led 10 make these few
REMARKS, he continued while the five
hus}ies who SAT with him in his little
saloon In Arkansas City looked at him
In great amaZeinent, by this yer mod
ern idcc a. lawmakin what pears Ia
done broke out into the c'mmun!ty like
a epidcrnis. Pears like il ravages mo-
In Congress n II does anywhcres else
but It's done spread 80 what Arkansas
City is gittn' TO be troubled with H.
''ThcY's some in the Town Bod wha,
| pears to reckon what airs nec'ary tc
he did when thcy's any kyind Of Il
rookus on is TO 10 make new law
bout II. Squire Hapgood done as,
Il f,Ns
70 TO mend the road what he comes &c
town by, an the bod says what they
can't spare the. money, but they passed
Il resolution sayin' II sh'd be did an
let q go ~ that.
THE squire was a little late TO the
mcetin'. long o. the bad roads an when
he hccrd what Was did he didn't pear
To be satisfied but they done told hin,
IL d been settled regular an s fur s
| I've hcerd l reckon It's.
Same way when anythin' goes
wrong into the c'mmunity, don't make
no difference what It's. somebody'll Gi,
| up into the Town Bod an p'pose To
round TO Joe Bassett. what's been
sheriff TO sev'ral years. an putin II
up 20 him to straiehten II out TIL
amt no pl!tc'l economy into IT."
Whats p'litic'l economy" asked
Sam Pearsau who like the others was
out what the old man was driving a:
MS Latin 10 common sense" said
the old man, AN pears like the mo
Latin some knows the less common
sense they has"
"Yos all was sayin' somepln' a spell
ago." observed Jake Winterbottom
critically, about man keep!n' his
haid wound up like 4 clock. Mebbe
lis yo' regulator what's done got out O.
order. If yo' was to git that fixed AN
take fresh start mebbe yo'n mought
keep time some better n 1t pears TO.
Way tits now. pears like yo' all is
kvind o. run down. Somepn's outen
order into yo innards."
"Oh. don't know" said Mr.. Owen
Pepper. II reckon tn ain't noth!n
outcn order no mo- II usual. Pears
like he's maxim bout g much noise
with his words s ever. He don't neve.
do nothin' mo- To make n noise with
e,n Sometimes he says somepin' what
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