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Show WHERE RELIGION IS CHEAP. Itinerant Preacher Philosophizes by the Dusty Roadside. Tho Rov. Kiunalrd Brlce sat upon the roadside and gazed at his feet. They were largo and substantial but very tired and quite incapable of adding add-ing another mile to the many they had already traveled that day, yet tramp they must to reach their destination. Ho looked furtively about; apparently he was alone. From his trousers pocket pock-et ho drew a flat, black bottle, which he applied to his lips; his air as he replaced re-placed the cork was somewhat more genial. "I done preach down tuh do Buck las' night luh do mattah o' ten cents," ho soliloquized, "an' I dono preach ovah In Noo Jabsey all sum-mah sum-mah fuh de mattaha o' seventy-flvo cents. Reckon dey's some folks glts dey ilglon pow'ful cheap." Llppln-cott's Llppln-cott's Magazine. |