A PUT UP JOB ON THE DEACON.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5117, 11 June 1885, Page 3

A PUT UP JOB ON THE DEACON.

11 Pa," $aid Samantha to Deacon Bcdkin, " ma sajß, ask you to tell us how yea climbed the post." "Go away, now, eals, and don't botuer me; I'm bu*y," said the deacon. "Oh, please, do tell us," chorused both airls. " Wall, to get rid on ye, I'll tell ye. It was afore we was mnrricd, an' a lot o' us young fellows liTed in a boardinghouie together.' I was a courtin' yer ma, then, an* all the rest wai a courtin'. Yer ma lived but ter Milton, and there wasn't any way to get there but to walk. " We fellers had an understandin' that, as we all went off courtin' Sunday and Thursday nights, the one that got home last must stand treat for the crowd. Now, my room»mate he would allers get in fust, somehow or other. He had to walk five miles to tee his gal, but he was allers in bed when I got in ; so lie never bad to treat. I couldn't understand it. Sometimes we felt sartin that he hadn't got home and watched for him, but be allers was found in bed. At last I told him I would gire him a dollar if he would tell me how he managed it, for I most allers had to stand treat. -^•-- "Wall, he finally showed me how he ~ climbed up by the corner post of the pitezey, an' got in the winder, while we were watching for him below. "That night was Thursday night, an I went to Milton as , usual. I wore a brand«new brown surtout. I got back a little late; an' Blipped round to the piazzey an? climbed up. I thought the post was mighty slippery, but I jest put in an' got up and got to bed. ** The next mornin' ef I didn't hare the darndest lbokin* suit of clothes you ever ite. They'd been a paintin' the house, and I didn't know it, for I .didn't go hum to supper, but went out to Milton airly to take sapper with your ma. New surtout an' all wai covered from top and toe with - paint* "Your ma, when I told her about it, eheiays: • '"Hezekiah, I think your-need somebody to take keer of you.' 11 •AW says I, " ' Hepzibah, spozen " An' your ma sticks to it that she didn't mean nothin' by it, and she didn't pop the question to me." v