A HAPPY RECONCILIATION.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5012, 4 February 1885, Page 3

A HAPPY RECONCILIATION.

"Gem'len," said the President of the Lime Kiln Club, as the meeting opened, " word has reached my ears dat Nelson Slabs an' Jndge Congo doan' lie down together like two spring lambs in de clover. I should like both brudders to step dis way." Ihe pair walked to the platform, shambling aloDg as if going to the gallows, and Brother Gardner continued :— " I understan' that Mrs Judge CoDgo gave a party a few nights ago, an' did not invite any of tho Slabs family. Am dat so, Nel son ?" " Yes, sah : dey bad de mos' brilliant kind of a blow-out over dar', and, although we has been de bes. of friends fur y'ars, we was not axed to lend our presence to grace de occashun." "Has youu axed fur any explanashuns?" <lNo,' sah. I reckon the judge's fam'ly feels above^ kas they has got a sewing masheen and we has-n't." " Nelson Slabs, had you gone to do judge an axed de reason why you left him out dis hardness of feeliDg would not have oc^ curred. I was dar' wid my ole woman, an' 1 knew all 'bout it. You war' on the list to be invited, but it was suddenly discovered by Mrs Congo dat she hadn't but twenty-one plates in de house. She couldn't borry but eighlten cheers. She has only sixteen cups an' sassers. She had already invited twenty two pussons, an' radder dan see your family standin' around on one leg, wid no plates to eat on, an' nuffin' to drink out of, she concluded to gin you de skip an' make a spesbul oyster supper fur you some time soon. Dar's de hull reasons, and what has you got to say?" For answer blnbs turned ronnd and extended his hand to the judge. They shook. "Go an'sot down," continued the president, " an' let dis be a solemn warn ing to'you an' to all de rest. Life am full of trifles dat kin be magnified to mountains. De man who journies along de highway, mus' not stop to pick up ebery chip an' inspect ebery straw. Let us now proceed to de biziness which has enabled us togeder".—Detroit Free Press.