MADE THE PRAYER OF HIS LIFE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 62, 27 December 1907, Page 3

MADE THE PRAYER OF HIS LIFE.

An old man in Georgia, named Jack Baldwin, having lost his hat in an old dry well one day, hitched a rope to a snag and let himself down. A wicked wag, named Neal, came along just then, and quietly detaching a bell from Baldwin's old blind horse, approached the well, bell in hand, and began a ting-a-ling. Jack thought the horse was coming, and said : " Hang the old blind horse; he's coming this way sure, and he ain't got no more sense than to fall in on me —whoa, Ball! " The sound came closer. " Great Jerusalem ! The old blind fool will be right on top of me in a minit —whoa, Ball! Whoa, Ball! " Ned kicked a little dirt on Jack's head, and Jack to pray : " Oh, Lord, have mercy on mc — whoa, Ball! —a poor sinner; I'm gone now —whoa, Ball! Our Father, who art in—whoa, Ball! —hallowed be thy —gee, Ball! gee; what'll Ido ? —name. Now I lay me down to si—gee, Ball! (Just then in fell more dirt.) Oh, Lord, if you ever intend to do anything for me —back, Ball! whoa ! thy kingdom come —gee, Ball! Oh, Lord, you know I was baptised in Smith's mill-dam —whoa, Ball! Oh, up ! Murder! Whoa ! " Neal could hold in no longer, and shouted a laugh which might have been heard two miles, which was about as far as Jack chased him when he got out. —Spectator. !