The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-12-27

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pair shop would just cover what was
the town graveyard. There had been
| talk for years about abandoning the
old site for ore better located. and
| the deacOn's offer for the land was
/ thought Il liberal one. Under state
law, however. if Il single objection was
| filed no move could be made for a GER
tain length of time.
! The widow Raymond had fled an
objection. She had lost her husband
some five years before, and to put 1t
in her words when the deacon called
on her:
There is to be Judgment day. isn't
| there?"
"Yes, they say sO.'
Gabriel will blow his hOrn?"
81 expect he will"
"And the quick aGi he dead will
rise up?"
Yes"
Deacon GOOdhuc, how far is it from
this to the town of GuilfOrd?"
Just seven miles, wilder"
And straight rOad?"
There hain't Il bend in it."
well, everybody in this village
knows that my Peter used to start for
Guilford every Saturday for years and
years"
He did, widder-he did,"
And everybody also knows that he
got lost as regularly as he started, and
it took two days to find him."
1.-TWO days, wilder, and sometimes
three"
when Gabriel blows that horn amt
there gOin' to be such bustlin' and
hustlin' as this world has never seenT"
Quite likely"
'Peter will be among 'em. When
he pops out of his grave he'll take a
look around, and if he sees the same
old landmarks he'll hustle straight for
the golden gates. If he's been dug up
and buried lin a strange spot it'll be
like gOin' to GuilfOrd over again, and
the gates will be shet agin him. No,
| want to give Peter fair show with
the rest of 'em, and l shan't withdraw
my protest"
Did the deacon argue the pOint2
Not Il bit of 1t.
Did he offer a whopping big price,
and thereby arouse the widows cupid
ity. and start her making inquiries?
Not at all. He just went home and
sat down and thought aloud:
"When wilder woman is widder
woman what does she want most on
this earth?
when q wilder woman has to make
her own garden, milk her COW, feed
her hogs, take care of the chickens,
split the wood, shovel snow and build
her own fires what does she most sigh
fOr?"
For a man, of course" he answered
himself-"any fool knows that"
The deacon set out with horse and
buggy and rode over most of the coun-
try. He finally found the man he was
looking for, and accosted him With:
DO you want to marry wilder
woman with about $4,000"
"You bet your hat / do! was the
ready reply.
1t did not take over half an hour to
settle the details, but the deacon
thought best to wait ten days longer
before calling on the widow Raymond
again. She met him with a smile and
said:
Deacon, l am ready to withdraw
my protest"
HAS something happened, widderf"
he innocently Queried.
Il am going to marry a man named
Rogers"
You don't say"
yep. No more single blessedness
for me-"
"But about Peter when the horn
blows?"
"Oh, as to that I've been thinkin'.
If Peter, when the Judgment day
comes, can't keep up with the scram-
BILE, he mast put up with the best he
can dow
And when the villagers heard that
the deacon had made a clear $4,000
by securing a husband for the widow
and selling the property to the rail-
roads, they went to the parsOn again.
GAS 1 take it," he replied, "the
widow couldn't look around, and so
the deacon did 1t for her."
"But he made $4,000"
"And out Of 1t he has paid up my
back SALARY, and is going to repaint
the meeting house and provide it with
spire and pew cushions. The dea-
cons all right"