PRIVATE m » . I I [ l - ÍT, low creature’s life.” pleaded the par­ P A R SO N p o h i c k s p e r i l . son, you should have clear and cer­ The Rev. Abiram Pohick was a de­ tain proof.” “ Proof !— what proof would you vout map end zealous circuit rider, but in worldly matters notably ab­ have ?” replied the leader. “ Was- sent minded. So much so that if ent the hoss found on you or you his wife, who was a noticing woman on the hoss —which is the same hadn’t kept a keen lookout when he thing in law ? Gome, string im up rose in the morning, ten to one he boys !5> And the p oor parson w ould surely would have appeared in public, half the time, arrayed in her habiliments have ended his worldly career then instead of his own—an exchange and there but for the timely arrival Would have scofBngly declared not of another party, In their midst was a man in d eri­ inappropriate. His head once set on a text, he was d e garb">-none other than Mr. Po* oblivious of all else.^ To find his hick’s companion of the proceeding wav round the circuit, he trusted night— securely bound on a horse. The new com pany was headed by iraplicity to Old Job’s geographical a D eputy Sheriff well acquainted knowledge. Old Job wa3 the par­ son’s horse. He was not an old with Nr. P oh ick , “ Glad to see yon, Mr. Pohick,’ horse, either, but a likely animal in. said the officer; “ but, bless me, I the prime of life. It was his gravi­ ty and patience, mayhap, that earn­ hardlv knew you in that rig !” T h e porson’s eyes, for the first ed him the sobriquet of “ Old Job.” time, fell on his garments. They He was a horse of sense, withal, and to a congregation that understood were certainly not his own. Noth­ Houyhnbnm could probably have ing could be more unclerical than preached a more practical sermon their cut and material. The cards and whiskey bottle were no w accoun­ than his master. A portion of Parson Pohick’s field ted for; and when Old Job, on of labor lay in a wild, out of the way whose back the other prisoner was region, and it was on his first jour* tied, greeted his master with his old ney to keep an appointment there familiar neigh, the whole truth flash­ that he met with the adventure we ed on the parson’s mimd. The man are about to relate. with whom he had shared his room After a wearisome day’s travel, the night before was a liorse-theif, Old Job and the parson sought and who rising first in the Jmorning, had found rest one night at a settler’s not only taked the parson’s clothes cabin. At a later hour another way­ for a disguise, leaving his [own, but farer arrived; and, after a hearty bad taken Old Job, who was far the supper, and a sociable chat, the better horse, instead of the one he two guests, who were to take an had recently stolen— the parson, in early start in the morning retired to his absent-mindedness, never notic­ rest both being assigned to one ing the difference. apartment. The theif was one well known to Mr. Pohick, his devotions ended, the officers, who had been for would gladly have conversed a little some time on his track; and when with his fellow guest, but the latcer the Sheriff’s deputy, who knew Old was disinclined to talk; and the par­ Job as well as his master, saw the son, from falling into a revery on former and the clothes of the latter his forthcoming sermon, in due time in the posessiou of a noted outlaw, fell sound asleep. he feared that murder as well as He awoke at day break, but found theft had been committed— and mur­ his,companion bad already gone. der would? have been committed but Having a long road yet before him for his ar rival in the nick of time. the parson rose at once, and having “ Let it teach you to keep your made his toilet, and performed his eves open next time,” was all the morning duties with all proper dis­ consolation the parson got from Mrs. patch, he left the house without dis­ Pohick on reaching home and tell­ turbing the family— having paid his ing her how near be had come to scot the night before—and finding being hanged.— New York Ledger. bis way to the stable, be saddled his horse and rode off, intending to T h a t M isc h ie v o u s Y oung B r o t h ­ e r . — The moral to the following, breakfast further on. It was a fresh morning;and, as the told by the sufferer, is two apparent pais n rode along, he sought to im­ to mention. Young ladies will here prove the time by more fully work­ after run their brothers out when ing up the details of the discourse gentlemen call: where with he was preparing to en­ I ’m certain I wished somebody lighten a people hitherto groping in would spank the young rascal. He darkness. talked of hills, mountains, valleys “ Get along, Job,’’ said the parson, and cataracts, (I believe I said wa­ at the end of a mental paragraph; terfalls.) when the boy spoke up “ I never knew you lag so before.” and said: But the horse seemed absorbed in “ W hy, sister’s got a trunk full of his own reflections, and paid no them up stairs; pa says they are heed. made of horse hair.’ ’ Inattention to his master’s words The revelation struck terror to me, was an unusual thing in Old Job, and and blushes into the cheeks of my might have attracted the parson’s no­ fair companion. tice; but then he began subdividing It began to be very apparent to bis “ Nineteenthly',” and the horse me that I must be very guarded might have stopped stock still for all in what I said, lest the boy might slip in his remarks at uncalled for his rider would have known. The clattering of hoofs, and the places; in fact I turned my conver­ cry of “ Stop thief !” behind him, at sation to him, and told him he ought length broke the parson’s chain of to go home with me and see what nice chickens we had in the coun­ thought. “ Stop, you old viilaiD, or we’ll try. Unluckily, I mentioned a yoke blow you through !” yelled several of calves my brother owned. The voices, accompanying the command little one looked up and said: “ Sister’s got a dozen pair of them, with divers expletives which greatly but she don’t weqr ’em only when shocked the parson’s ears. Parson PoLick had no suspicion she goes up town on windy days.” “ Leave the room, you unmanner­ that such words could possibly be addressed to him; but the reproof of ly wretch !” cried Emily, “ leave profanity "was a duty he never neg­ quick !” “ I know what you want me to lected. So, turning abont, he quo­ ted several texts on the subject, and leave the room for, “ he replied, would have enlarged upon them edi- “ you can’t fool me. You want to fyingly but for the derisive shouts of set on that man’s lap and hiss him, the company in whose midst he like yon did Bill Jones the other day; quickly found himself. you can’t fool me, I just tell you. “ Ha, ha,! laughed one; “ jest hear Gim me some candy, like he did. the old rascal !” and I ’ll go. "Xou think because “ Satan reprovin’ sin !” added an­ you’ve got the Grecian bend you’re smart. Guess I know a thing or other. “ Whose boss is that ?”qneried a two. I ’m mad at you, anyhow, be­ third. cause papa would have bought me Whose horse? echoed the parson a top yesterday if it hadn’t been for — whose is wLatr horse ? getting them curls, dog yer! You W hy, that ’ere you’re mounted qn. needn’t turn so red in the face, ’cause This? W hy, this is my h o rse - I can see the paint. There ain’t no old Job, answered the parson more use winking with that glass eye of and more surprised. yourn, for,I ain’t going out o’ here, Your horse ! exclaimed a burly fel now that’s what’s the matter with low. You say that agin, an’ i’ll the purps. I don’t care if you are mash your mug. That’s my boss as twenty-eight years old, you ain’t no was stole, an’ yon stole :im, an’ his boss o’ me.” name is not Job; its Pete. „ A Mississippi boatman with im­ The horse whinnied at the name, as if turning State’s evidence against mense feet stopping at a public house on the levee, asked the porter bis rider. Git down, you old reprobate 1 the tor a bootjack to pull off his boots. burly man continued. W h y, I ’ve 'Che colored gentleman, after exam­ owned that hoss ever sence be was ining the strangers feet broke out as foalded, an’ there’s plenty here ken follows:— No. jack here big miff for dem feets. Jackass couldn’t pull prove it. That’s so ! chimed in several. Git them off, massa, widout fram ing de down 1 git down 1 you taraal old leg Yuse better go back about tree miles to de forks in de road an pull th ie f! - ’ A dozen revolvers were leveled at e m offdar. A gentleman sat down at a table him. and the parson felt constrained in an Oshkosh restaurant the other to dismount. I assure you, gentlemen, the horse day and called for a “ bill of particu­ “ Brooklyn, by thunder !” is mine, he protested earnestly, and lars.” being a minister of the gospel, my roared the by standers in a gust of moral indignation, as they shot him word should have some weight. through the doorway with the veloci« Minister of the— haw ! haw ! The man who tried to repeat the iy of a Remiugtongrifle ball. words broke down with laughter. A Chicago “ personal*’ announces “ A pretty miuisterjyou are !” feer- that “ Olive Logan’s husband is at ed another, who, searching the par­ the Sherman House.” It must be son’s person, drew a pack of cards very gratifying to a man to be an­ from one pocket and an empty whis­ nounced in that way. ky bottle from another. A colored girl has been admitted Mr. Pohick was dumbfounded. to the High School at Keokuk, Iowa, “ There is some terrible mistake but it took a mandamus from tho here !” was all he could utter, Circuit Court to get her in. “ What say you, gentlemen?— is A musician is an airy fellow; but the pris’ner guilty or net guilty ?” he can’t help it. sang out the leader of the erowd. One way to get a roaring trade is “ G uilty,” they all said. With equal unanimity it was vo­ to buy a managerie. t. ted to hang him on tne spot 1 “ Arose,” by any other namewould “ My friends, before taking a fell be “ got up.” Q u ic k C u kes MEDICAL and AID. 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