. "The fambly album"; another "fotygraft album," shown to the new preacher by Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged eleven; the "bigger album from upstairs". This heres Fred Peters, Uncle Bens an awful good feller, but fast. Pa saysMaud S. is Januhwary mlasses compared thim; says Freds what yuh might call a reglarJim-dandy lobloller. One time, why Fred, he went into a revivalmeetin one night, and he hadnt set theremoren a minute till he begun t cry. Thenthere was a turribul tdo. All thgood peoplegathered round Fred and prayed fer him andcried weth him, and Fred, he signed th day Revr
. "The fambly album"; another "fotygraft album," shown to the new preacher by Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged eleven; the "bigger album from upstairs". This heres Fred Peters, Uncle Bens an awful good feller, but fast. Pa saysMaud S. is Januhwary mlasses compared thim; says Freds what yuh might call a reglarJim-dandy lobloller. One time, why Fred, he went into a revivalmeetin one night, and he hadnt set theremoren a minute till he begun t cry. Thenthere was a turribul tdo. All thgood peoplegathered round Fred and prayed fer him andcried weth him, and Fred, he signed th day Revrunt Dinwiddle meets Fred onth street and grabs him by th hand and says,Oh! Brother Peters, you filled our hearts wethjoy last night—th* old church never witnesseda more blessed occasion. And Fred, he smileda kind of a sickish grin and says, Was thatwhere I was? he Harry Van Pelt, that is. Hes a grocer, butpa says a man weth a name like that had ortt be in th hide and fur business. Dont astme what that means! One time Harry and pa and a lot uh otherfellers went t a lodge convention t Chicago, andone mornin Mrs. Van Pelt got a telegram frompa, sayin, Harry passed away at one oclockthis mornin. Meet remains on four oclocktrain. Well, sir, there was jist a turribul crowd tth deepo and they hadnt no moren got thbox offm th train till there was a turribul hol-lerin and kickin in it. Th* deepo agent tookand prized th cover off and Harry set up, alldressed in his lodge unyform, weth his orstrich-feather hat tied under his chin and tipped downover one eye. He was th comicalest lookinsight yuh ever seen. His wife, she give onelook, then she says, Well, pa Van Pelt, ef youaint a fright! she says. Then she busted outlaughin fit t kill. Pa, he dodged Mrs. Van Pelt fer a spell, butshe never was mad at him. Said it servedHarry right.
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