| Show the two seed baptists many persons may have heard and many may not of a sect styled two seed baptists 11 such an order does or did not long iong a ago exist t in in T tennessee e unessee nn essee their faith is founded ed upon some mystical idea as to adams adans two s eed seed cain and abel being the types of all good and evil in the world the fol foi following lowin anny funny incident among amon I 1 some of emy m is related related in the new orleans picayune two friends looking into minerals were journeying ourn eying a year or two ago in the copper districts of tennessee and georgia saeid seeing about noon one sultry daya neat spring house on the shadyside shady side of a green meadow bluff suggestive of cool milk and butter and a cottage with vine covered porch they stopped to ask a a bait for themselves and horses the host lhost seemed embarrassed at the demand and showed a hesitation unusual in that hospitable country about granting the request re auest quest and confessed at last that he was out of meat and had little or no grain upon the travelers telling him however that a glass of buttermilk and a fresh egg was yas all they cared for and that a bite from his luxuriant meadow would be better for their town fed f d horses than any amount of stable food he joyfully begged them to dismount half a dozen of his boys contended which should take care of the horses while the girls brought water towels etc some of the small fry were bid to sic the dows dogs dogs on the chickens while others were sent to tre the hen house for new eggs our travelers were soon taking their ease in their inn and in full fuli f ull nil chat with their host whose name it seems was brother stalling a talking man given to argument and a sort of preacher in the two seed baptists the copper mines the backward season and the great scarcity scarcity of provisions were in turn discussed the last fast being beiga ter zer a topic of interest with the worthy brother br for meat was two bits a pound and skace isaace at that and corn usually two bits a bushel was hardly to be got at a dollar and a half and money was the of all the ile house like all others in the region was swarming with towheaded tow headed urchins several pairs of twins in the lot and the good brother was hard put to it to latify their mountain appetites he could not sa say bay amento amen to the text happy Happ is the man hat that t hath hati hatt his quiver full of them one of the travelers atlen at length remarked upon the number of children in me ie country fact stranger says saya the host with half a groan its perfectly scandalous the way the f S JS J S t t ss women ese duons juans if falat hat bat ken be e I 1 wonder condet ff if it in the waier water 11 1 i co copper per ya R mrs who irked looked go dod god odret yel yei for s sel set tv cral more sets of twins seemed annoyed at the scandalous remark while leher leber her mother a wrinkled crone in the chimney comer vented her rage in wrathful puffs at her corn cob lt pipe pe the old waman woman worn woin tun tin it seems was of some other stripe hated the two seeders and was was wag always ready for a pick at them whatever went amiss amisa in the country she incontinently laid at the door of this pestilent estilena est ilent sect the guests pests saw a storm was brewing tr or drewing ewing and to egg it on one of them thein thought it quite possible it might be the copper it was a great tonic and the mines were productive etc brother S pleased at the support given to his theory proceeded to enlarge on the subject in very decided terms till the old woman her patience gone and her pipe nipe puffed out snarled forth drat your our copper I 1 say its the two seed bapties Bap baptists 21 tile the travelers roared brother collapsed and tile the old hag saw she had made a hit though she know exactly how bow it wasand aasand kept ept yelling its the two seed baptists brother what it is idill till her daughter filling her pipe she went again to smoking and was stift puffing the vapor in triumphant wreaths about her head when our travelers paid their and went on their journey |
