| Show FROM FLORIDA A nighia AMUSING LETTER I FRO FROM ELDER WILEY dear old ROUNDUP ROUND BOUND UP the last time I 1 wrote you was in the summer I 1 had bad hal the chills and el der CS C T brown laughed at me I 1 swore vengence but it was several mouths months later before I 1 got a chanco chance to laugh at him one day I 1 called at bro parkers and fouti dElder B suffering nith ith 24 boils boila dinner was soon announced and when I 1 saw elder brown brodu take a pillow to the table and sit eit on it to keep f from orn hurting the chair I 1 felt that I 1 was even with him As is ie usually the case our success in this state has aroused the adversary and in some parts the elders have met with considerable prejudice in sua danneo co elder W G fisher was captured by a mob and placed on board of a train with his fare paid to chattanooga he was told never to set foot in the state again the account wile appeared in THE ROUNDUP ROUND UP of elders west and others being run out was erroneous president west and ins his companion had bad left the day before the ho mob was formed elder frank cutler is now president of the florida conference our former president joseph A west was wag compelled to return home on dec ath on account of sickness the last that wo we heard the florida conference Confer enca was still in the lead in baptisms our score was south carolina was second with a tally of since oct loth my companion and I 1 bave eliav e baptized six five females and one male I 1 have decided that us as a ladles ladies man I 1 must be OK or cr else men aie harder to convert than women not long since I 1 called at the house of mr lee and found him busy killing hots hogs in case your many readers have bave never heard beard of a southern hog killing I 1 will endeavor to describe one two negroes and a big dog climbed over the fence into the lot that the hogs were in A ft fat hog was pointed out to the dog do and lie he caught it by the ear then one of the negroes jumped juniper on the hot hol while the other caught it by the tall tail then decided decide to pet get the animal as near the hot water as 31 possible before killing him the dog ding was made to let go and then the horr hog 7 began bucking and threw lug his ri ler jer and got cot away TI tte tie e dg was calle callei I for a again ain and this time as soon us piggy was caught he was knocked on the head with an ax as nearly three weeks ago I 1 was delighted by seeing in tim tar ROUNDUP ROUND UP that burt snowball was wag in this thia state then for four or live days I 1 was nervous I 1 had decided to pull a long face and adress him as elder snowball find and proceed to unload a job lot of good advice ou on him but when we met I 1 forgot all about it and said burt old boy how goes boea it the next three hours we talked more than a relief society quilting bee and at the end of that time I 1 could shut my eyes and imagine that I 1 was in that eliat dear old land ot of scotland far away it well the christmas week cams came on and wo we got permission to spend it to together gether we decided to go over to leon co and spend the day with our friend mr W E bradley we arrived there on the afternoon of the and on christmas morning we began to make esima tea ot of how bow much turkey we wa could hold but alakl not to be about an hour before dinner time we got word that a mob was coming and we suddenly remembered that we had a pressing engagement elsewhere the first twelve miles wo went in in a little less than three hours by four we were about twenty miles every step of the waybe way we were tb thinking inking of that lovely turkey we nad bad missed I 1 tried to console burt by telling him that this would be afine a fine experience lr for to tell his children about lia in future years but lie ho see bee it that way lie said he would much rather tell his posterity about eating a fat turkey well the average letter from a missionary is not considered complete without it contains a lot of good advice so nere bere goes lor for a whack at the boys nho are expecting V to be struck by box B lightning get up on up lop ol of the alio fence and practice walking back and forth on the top pole then you will ha be able to walk tile loot logs acrons the streams when you come couth another bit big point is to learn to sing it makes no difference dille renco whether your voice is good izord or not you will have to sing when you get out here and it if you already know how bow it wont be bo hard bard on your companions nerves get ou on the good side of pete mckinnon mckinion McKi nuon and tell him you will haul him a load of 0 coal if he will let you join the choir the people at home might aust as well hear bear your first song as aa us poor elders out here who have enough sorrows already elder snowball is getting along fine as aa a vocalist this morning he sang three hymns without even making the dog howl ile he joins me in sending love to nil all the dear ones in the kingdom of lVa basso in the land of the white rat rabbit bit WILEY lake bird fla december 30 1896 |
