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Show EVIDENTLY SHE WAS ANNOYED Good Vife's Punishment, Intended for Hisband, Poor Compensation to Revivalist. A popular revivalist had been holding hold-ing services at a town in Mississippi when a heavy rain came on, and he accep'ed an invitation to pass the night at the house of one of the townsmen. Observing the preacher's drenched clothing, the host brought out t suit of his own and sent his guesi upstairs to don it. Th; good man had made the change and as on his way back to the sitting sit-ting room, .when the woman of the house came out of another room, holding hold-ing in her hands the big family Bible, out cf which the minister was to be invited to read a chapter before the familr went to bed. She was not, however, In a very amia'ile frame of mind, for careful housewives are likely to be put out of Borts by the advent of unexpected compmy. Seeing the revivalist in his borrowed garments, she mistook him for hr husband, and as he passed in front of her she lifted the book and brougit it down sharply on his head. "There!" she exclaimed. "Take that for asking him to stay all nightl" Llppincott's Magazine. |