| Show Sitti lit don vm a preace er in a W I 1 eatery town dwells ellder it II a il clergyman 0 rayman very well known throughout ghou t it hia Is state for ii al lity aud and abr shrewdness addess it is is pretty generally believed on account of his is ev evilena ilent knowledge of at the ways of the hn world that till t he ha was waa rather rapid in m lis ins YOM youth among bis big del nedeh b bora bars is 13 it hotel leepar of 0 joy jovial i at hi position und and libi liberal ra heart when ever the older ba has a specially ing and sweeping discourse prepared it is his big wont to rive give special invitations to his doubling friends to bo be present and these are 0 t 3 accepted with the alio proviso that tb the e and his lady abail meet tile the party at the hotel at dilmor on un on a appointed day during daring the week so thy they may lave have an opportunity to defend themselves on a these theae occasions dinner often lasts the whole after nood and the elder is is obliged to pairy parry the combined blows a 0 the tion ua on one occasion ono host best lis lia match in in the clergyman in m a worldly way and it was lis ibis circum betanco that I 1 set out to relate the land landlord 0 r d rein r ne d on a 8 00 certain rt a i n satier SA t III day evening from a trip to the tar far west and next found him with lis ilia wife seated in a front pew when the plate was passed be ba felt feit in 10 alk all his pockets but could find fand 0 only ln 1 y a comb jackknife jack knite and h cincu circular la r piece af ivory marked 5 11 which chic is supposed by poker players to represent value this ida latter was waa dropped 1 in D the plate under the vigilant yi pyo eye ot of tho the pastor but unnoticed by be sex ton whose eyes had bad been dimmed by ago age on receiving the collection the pastor missed tho the chip chip ond and idled the he F sexton belton for it tile the latter had bad thrown it away supposing it to bili ba a in mark ark of disrespect from so bamo bomo m G ec offer eldr elda E R knew hia bia roan 10 n and d caused the tha representative 0 of m value va 8 1 lueto a a to be ba recovered next W morning ns as the landlord was dilating epou his hia trip to acro a crowd ivl of 01 friends in his office B elder ider 11 appeared and advancing ti to the co counter lunter placed the chip down dow 13 with the click so familian famili at Bt to co connoisseurs rs and asked can you redeem that this morning brother 8 I 1 orBe b S could not do less than iland band out a 4 tivo five dollar bill end we elder departed after ox api bainy the hope that he ha might X always ays be as aa lucky lucay mine host says he be alia shall 11 not ait it down with a preacher again per 11 0 in in harpers majum for december |
