Show separating the sheep from the goat goats some time ago there resided in a part of new york but a short distance up the hudson an individual who was a noted wag and nd who had an irreclaimable habit of stuttering in fact lie he was generally known through the country as stuttering stuttering sam 12 this genius who bad a great penchant for jokes and withal a a hankering after good old passed a day without playing some of his tricks on one occasion he fie was assisting a drover who had charge of a large flock of sheep etwas jt was on a sunday afternoon in summer when they had bad occasion to pass by a coun country r meeting house ouse w whose ose doors were t thrown own open on account of the heat that one 0 of the sheep as sheep will sometimes do ran I 1 inadi t t the church the drover not wishing to enter in the then dilapidated state of his ap ar parel nade made up his bis mind to send sam sim so calling in him bosack bo h said sald I 1 I 1 sam will you go ii in there and get out that she sheep W W w youg g glye give pd id doy do said sam 1 A quart of prime old oid rye eill answered the drover III I ill lii d dp it said baid sam and he entered the meeting muse huse the sheep seeing him him bim follow ingran up aisles till he reached the pulpit when he was soon cau caught bt by bv sam w who 0 seizing him by the horns began t to try to get him out I 1 what are you doing there cried the minister roused at length from his brilliant bythe noise I 1 sam saia looked over his shoulder with a comical express expressions loa ioA in in his grey e asas he answered oh jio thing pin via I 1 o only lly fly s sep par at ing the s sheep f from the g goats notwithstanding the time and place but few present could conid refrain from indulging in a snicker and sam proceeded in triumph with his sheep to the drover who it is needless to add forked over the tho necessary beverage |