The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-08-29

facts. and. after chewing IN than, fer
live minutes he said:
"Deacop. you was Q fool for maxim
such a promise"
II know was"
my old woman has asked me m0re'n
forty times to promise the same thing,
but I never have done Il and never
WILL"
But I wish hadn't"
"But you did, and now We must
see how you car get out Of 1t. Was
your wife ever In 2 boat till that
daJS. :.
"Never."
~-was there any call for her % .
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~ hatsshs would mt marry again
Il you died nrstr
'.he did notl'
"well. there you are. % free % .
bird. though you'd better 90 to the
parson and see what he thinks about
It. He may hold sentimental views.
The deacon walked over to the par
sonage. aud not wishing to be too
brusQue, he began:
"Parson, do you hold that an angel
In heaven can see what Is going on
here bel6wf'
eff they could they wouldn't be
angels very long" was the grim
reply.
did you ever preach that they
could?"
mot that I remember of. Heaven
Is long way off, deacon"
"My wife kinder believed that after
she got to heaven she could see what
was takin' place down here"
The parsOn was silent.
"She wanted me to promise not to
marry again in case she died, because
If she looked down and saw me with
second wife 1t would make her feel
bad.
IF anything could make the angels
feel bad in heaven, 1t would not be
heaven, would ity
"By George. parson. 1t wouldn't
Martha was mistaken about 1t. II
was to marry half dozen times
over she couldn't know anything
about it."
"But did she ask you to promise1'
queried the parson.
Eyes, she kinder asked me-" 4
"And you promised?''
eyes, l kinder promised, but It was
because ] did not want her to feel
bad as an angel. Now that you say
she couldn't feel bad If she tried her
hardest, I guess that promise needn't
bother me much"
"But look out next time, deacon"
"Yes-ahem-yes!"
cts the Widow Stephens. sup.
pose?"
eyes, kinder"
'Throw out any hints YETI"
"a dozen. guess"
"YOu may find that she made a prom.
Use to her dying husband"
"Jewhittaker! TIL see about that
the first thing"
1t was a new scare for the deacon
and he made the two blocks to the
widows house on the trot. He found
her in the garden coaxing the pea
vines to climb their best, and he
didn't wait minute before asking:
"Widder Stevens, did your husband
expect to 60 to heaven when he
died?"
II don't see how he could. He was
a man that cussed and gambled and
drank"
'Did he ask you to promise not to
marry again?"
mo, he didn't, and if he had
should have told him that that was
my own business. Why ure you asking
these questions?"
"Widder, hain't l been good man
at the woodpile?"
"Fine."
sand good one in the gardenr
"Sure."
-"And hain't lonely and you
lonely?"
1--WE are"
'sThen-then let's get married!"
LA me! Bring on the parson and
have 1t over with and off our hands
for them string beans have got to be
poled afore sundownw
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