. "The fambly album"; another "fotygraft album," shown to the new preacher by Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged eleven; the "bigger album from upstairs". Yuh see, hes a footracer, Miz is, and analmighty fast one. He was cousin t th ministerof our church (Revrunt Swope, th secont oneback before you come) and one time he comehere, all duded up and wearin a plug hat, tvisit. He tended all th church meetins andtook part a little, sometimes; and he done hisrunnin on th cinder road up t th admired him, he was s polite andcould run s fast. /Well, by-m-by he took pa and one or twoother men
. "The fambly album"; another "fotygraft album," shown to the new preacher by Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged eleven; the "bigger album from upstairs". Yuh see, hes a footracer, Miz is, and analmighty fast one. He was cousin t th ministerof our church (Revrunt Swope, th secont oneback before you come) and one time he comehere, all duded up and wearin a plug hat, tvisit. He tended all th church meetins andtook part a little, sometimes; and he done hisrunnin on th cinder road up t th admired him, he was s polite andcould run s fast. /Well, by-m-by he took pa and one or twoother men to one side and told m he had amatch on weth a feller he could beat a mile andthat it was a good chanct fer m t make somemoney. Told m not t whisper it t a soul,cause he didnt want th preacher t knowthat he was a perfeshnul and run fer money. Well, th long and short of it was, pa losttwo hundred dollars. Yuh see, Miz throwedth race t th other feller and they skipped outtogether. Pa says Preacher Swope lookedpurty glum fer a spell after that, and he won-dered, pa did, whether it was altuhgethersorruh oxer th lost es-tate uh Miz that That theres Shedrach Meeshach Ab-indigoParsons, and hes an awful good feller, I wantyuh t know, even ef he aint white. He ust tbe in Sedjwick Brothers Grand iMalgamatedShows. He was called Th Bood-hi, HinduWonder, and it was his business t be dressedin a turban and a robe, like all them Eye-talianpeople is, yuh know, when theyre t home, andt tell fortunes; only, first Deld have him standout in front where people could see him, thenDeld bow down low t him and say, Oh! mas-ter, wilt thou condescend t greet th people;Shed, hed look awful solemn and bug out hiseyes and roll m, and by-m-by hed say, Ush-macush, alla-magoosh, hed say; then hedturn round slow and go into th tent, and Deldtransulate what hed said. Said it meant,Good mornin; th spirit salutes thee. AndDel alius told th people that th minute thBood-hi laid eyes on their beautiful city
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