Show prayer phil was a fervent christian with a great gift of prayer lie attended all the saturday night ings on tho neighboring plantations planta tiong and coula pray louder and longer than any of tho brethren but phil had one weakness he dearly loved money an J different from then ogro generally loved to hoard it near by us lived a man who not troubled by any scruple a would pay phil a dollar to ark in b ls fields on sunday one sunday night phil came homo after dark I acco tod him with where have you been phil oh jeet knocking about makaa you have been working for miller you tee bawa the old fellow i in weeds and he jest showed me a silver dollar and ineat stand it aint you afraid the devil will get you for breaking the Sabat lt phil scratched hie head a minute and ead I gleea the Lord 11 me maa K no lie baya remember the bab bath day and keep it holy phil went off looking pretty gober and it was not long before heard bis voice in fervent prayer back of the barn so bought I would clip down near enough to hear oh loidl I heard him say I have this day ripped and cubed and sheared at them confounded oxen of millers and beat broke the sabbath day oh lord cleoe forgive me please forgive me for you knows aae nothing but ft begalle Be ralle heathen anyhow if jot forgive me ahli lime ill never do t again a long as I live ho gives me im dollars and t hay day at this point I was obligor to beat hasty retreat but I am thinking that poor uncle phil the only two dollar and a half abia world fret erwis tho newmarket was won today by wallenstein |