Show how sam smally got converted sam you was once a member of the church tell us about your conversion ly said leake to sam smally a ion lon long iong lank specimen of humanity as the aforesaid sam leake stubs and myself were returning home one fine evening from a sale at a neighbors neigh borys boris who was about moving west sam was about half tight and consequently very loquacious tell yer about aboul the time when I 1 war converted ver ted yawned dawned the old whisky barrel yes said charley 1 I reckon it will be very edifying so let us have your experience 1 I well yer see boys war a big bim camp m betin tover lover in hancock it wun held heid by the hardshell baptist P stop sam said 1 I you forget that the Hard ard shells never hold camp meetings 21 2 1 illen tilen then ilien it the Ilard Hard shells sheils I 1 remember now it was the M methodists 12 this was more like it and so let him have his own way wall wali 1 continued sam sami saml 1 I went over to that camp ground when I 1 arriel arrive I 1 tied my horse to the when who should I 1 see but preacher saunders and wash ivash hamlin you know they lives over here in jones says old saunders samuel come this wa way 1 1 and I 1 went down in a thicket with yem lem cm foryl for I 1 knowd j ass sa natural like what they wanted coz I 1 knowd when them two commenced rummaging rummaging I 1 a thicket whisky about certain certai n arter lter we got ot a piece in the woodsy woods wash run his han band funder under an old chunk and pulled out a ju jug 0 as weighed nigh on two or three gallons brethren 5 said the preacher 91 1 I aint one of yem lem em as approves of drinkin 1 it is a bomina tion but I 1 thinks it are wholesome esom to take a little for a pain in the stomach y and so sayin he tuk about ten any an I 1 took six and seven and a hundred and seventy two wall we then adjourned to the place whar war a big crowd gathered to near hear our preacher saunders hold forth wall he got up inter the pill porch and t tuk uk his text in jeremiad Je it says come coma unto me all as are heavy and cant tote your burtrens bur much longer 1 and then he commenced sorter slow at fust but then all at once the spirit or the whisky begun to move him and he aist let out I 1 heaven and yearth were comin to together 0 ether I 1 begun to get and feel curious when all at once an old poman oman as weighed in the neighborhood of five hundred pounds fetched out a squall an shouted Gl glory oryll and then they all commenced one ones old brother grabbed wash an wash like a fool hollered hurray for the democracy heres my hand for a thousand years aist like he does when he is in town on lection day By meby uhlie while I 1 auz dadlin round an old brother got me up tu the alter the old whisky had got me so drunk that I 1 know but what I 1 war the preacher and the hull con congregation re atlon aaion when the fust man I 1 saw war old deni general saunders sh as if he afraid to do it stan firm sam y aez he as he botched me by the head ard pulled me down on the straw and the fust thing I 1 I 1 knowd for they war kickin and bariny BO so as I 1 know bothin down sat that old women omen right on top of me oh Lor lordy loray dyll aez 1 I pray on yer burden will be lifted directly said old saunders ari uri a right eight ht there the old omens snuff bottle burnet turned over and filled my eyes right chock full I 1 commenced groaning gro anin anih and twisting twi stin like a duck in lui a hornet time weep on said the general im with yer to the tomb said wash 1 I tried my best to get up up but etwas it was no use us that old oid ol domen omen sot er sh as contented as a 4 hog log in a mud hole at the last trial I 1 botched the old lady by the leg by my teeth she batched a yell and riz I 1 got free breo free and broke fur my horse and darned ef that aint the last time I 1 f war ever at preaching pr eachin in hancock ancock Il 72 LACONIC correspondence COB the thee epistle of mary foot mother of the celebrated comedian written while under the arrest for deltwas deb debt was my dear son I 1 am in jail your affectionate mother MARY FOOT the reply my dear mother so am L 1 your affectionate son eon SAMI SAML FOOT 0 sambo you black sambo why way y you 0 i betray dati dats dat secret ecret I 1 told yer de oder day daya j 1 1 I betray b e t ray de secret e r t 2 1 I scorn de I 1 found od I 1 cian t keep um urn so I 1 told um to soma body dat could |