Show I NEVER SO GOOD NO MORE Ben Den T Rice and Hymen Hymon Levy Lev both I now no dead were two of the real old Virginia characters In a n small Pied Pled Piedmont Piedmont I mont county count seat town Ben BeD was I Ithe the keeper of oC the town Inn and Hy Hr Hymon H taco mon a Genuine Jew ran mu a store 1 Ben nan was noted for profanity drink drinking drinkIns lug Ins and gambling antI and telling unheard of o yarns Hymen was waa a dally daily via vis visitor Is at the Inn Tun to got his dram and at times became b came thoroughly shocked at Bens Dens outrageous language and manners Bon Son one evening joined the tho town boys bos In an nn exciting game gamo of football on Main street became overheated and cooling oft off ot too quickly went Into pneumonia at al night Several Seora physicians clanG attended him who soon pro pronounced his case hopeless A dozen or more moro of Bens friends among them theft Hymen standing around the bod bed Just JURt before Bens spirit took look Its flight from front earth when ahen lion Bon uttered a n long groan and said Bald 0 O Lord havo haro mercy merc on me meAt meAt At this moment Hymen turned I his head hend slowly and remarked r d D Do i Good Lord ought to tako Ben right i inow now for ho he never bo be so 10 good no nomore more From Norman E Macka Macks Na National National ia Monthly |