THE DYING DIGGER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 276, 10 December 1887, Page 2

THE DYING DIGGER.

(From tho Spectator,) Billy is dying, and implores some onato pray; and here comes one of the most painfully humorous scenes within our knowledge, a scene in which this especial type of American humor is exhibited in its perfection:— "The boys looked sorrowful; if gold dust could have bought prayers, Billy would have had a first-class assortment, iu an instant. 'There's Deacon Adams over to Pattins's, suggested a bystander; 'an'they say he's a reg'lar rip-roarer at prayin'; But 'twould take four hours to fetch hiui.' ' Too long,' said " the Doctor. •Downin Mexico, at the cathedral,' said another,'they pray for a feller after he's dead, when yer pay 'em fur' it, an' they say it's jist the thing-sure pop. I'll give yar my word, Billr, an' no go back, that I'll see the job done up in style fur ver, ef that's any comfort.' 'I want to hear it myself,' groaned the sufferer; 'I don't feel right; cin't nobody pray—nobody in *e crowd?' Finally matters were brought to a crisis by Mose—no one knew his other name. Mose uncovered a sandy head, face, and beard, and remarked: 'I don't want to put on airs in this crowd, but ef no one else ken say a word to the Lord about Billy Bent, I'm a-goin' to do it myself. It's a bizness I've never been in, but there's nothin 1 like tryin'. This meeting 'll come-to order to wunst.' 'Hat's ofnfe church, gentlemen !' comniatHg Pentecost. Off came every hatj| and some of tho boys knelt down, M Mose knelt beside the bench, and sai JS ' Oh Lord, hero's Billy Bent nee M Wlin'to! He's panned outhislaH dust, an' he seems to hey a pur|y clfflß idea that this is his last cliance7«B wants you to give him a lift, Lord, aP* it's the opinion of this house that he needs it. TainVnoneof our biuness wot he's done, an' if it wiie, you'd know more about it then we cud tell yer; hut it's mighty certain thee a cuss that's bin in the diggin's.fur years needs a sisjlitoftnendin'up afore he kicks the bucket. 1 ' That's so, 1 responded two or three very emphatically. ' Billy's down, Lord, an' no decent man believes that the Lord 'ud hit a man when he's down, so there's one or two things got to be done—either he's got to be left alone, or he got to be helped. Lettin' him alone wont do him nor ennybodyelseenny good, so helpin's the holt, an* as eniiy one uv us tough fellers wud help ef wo knew how, it'a only fair to suppose that the Lord'll do it a mighty sight quicker. Now what Billy needs is to see the thing in that light, an' you ken make him do it a good sight better than we ken. It's inighty little for the Lord ter do, but it's meat and drink and clothes to Billy jest now, When wewus hoys some uv us. read some promises of you'm in that hook thet wus writ a' gud spell ago by chaps in the Old Country, an' though sunday school teachers _ and preachers mixed the matter in our minds, an'got its all tangle-footed, we know they're thar, an' you'll know what we mean. Now Lord, Billy's jest the boy he's a hard case, so you can't find better stuff to work on-he's in a bad fix, that we can't do nuthin' fur so it's jus yar chance. He ain't ex-' actly the chap to make a Number Ono Angel of, but he ain't the man to forget a friend, so-he'd be a handy feller to hevaroun.' 'Feelany better, Billy}' said Mose, stopping the prayer for amoment. ' A little, 1 said Billy, feebly 'butyer wont to tell the whole yarn! I'm sorry for all tho wrongs I've done.' 1 He's.sovry for all his deviltry, s»[) —'' And I ain't got. nothin' agmMe Jiidge; continued the sufferer. 'An he don't bear no malice agin the Judge, which he shouldn't, seeing he generally gm as good as he took. An'the W an; short of it, Lord, isjusfc this—he? dying, an he wants a chance to die wjth, his. mind easy, an' nobody else can make it so, bo we leave the whole job in your hands, only puttin' in, for Billys comfort, that "we recollect inghowyerforgivladyinl'thief, 1 adyin l 'thief, and that it. am t likely y or a-going, to ho harderon a cliap that's alwaß paid fer what he got,. TVs the whole story.' Amen, Billy's hand, rapidly growing cold, reached out for that of Mose, and 4 he said with considerable effoji . 'Mose, yer come in ez handy ifa nugietinagone-up claim. GodCless ! yer, Mose. I feel better inside,fff I [get through the clouds, an 1 hey a hm' chance to say a word to them as is tho cheifsthar. that word'll be for you' fMose. God bless yer, Mose, an' ef ' my blcssin's no account, it can't cuss yer.ennyhow. This claim's' washed out, fellers,, an' here goes the last shovelful, to see if ther's enny gold in' it or not'' And Billy departed this life and the boys drank to the repose ofhiß<apul," ... ' .•;:" ."'•', ", that, any. othef notion V ■ given of t{ie.mitig|ed : gi-aescimeneßa'and : of these digger/ stories than that ono feels tliflw : .« iu one's bonegf ;;/;■< ■:*.■*■'-'

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