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BROOKLYN, Sept. 2L—Preliminary to his
men It the Academy of Music in this
city this foreseen Rev. Dr. Tulmage an-
nounced that until the new Brooklyn Tubl
ernacle was completed he would preach in
the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Sun-
day mornings. He was glad to add that by
an emsement made through The Chris-
tian Hernia, of New York city, he would
hecnsbled to preach in the New York
Academy of Music, on Fourteenth street,
onSundny evenings, beginning with the
evening of Sept. 23. lie also announced
that on next Sabbath morning, Sept. m,
he would begin a series of sermons en-
titled, “My Recent Journey Through the
Holy Loud and Neighboring Countries;
What I Saw and Learned.”
The subject of today‘s sermon was,
“Crooked Things." Text, Isl. xi, 4: "The
crooked shall be made straight."
Geometry, from the time it was discover-
ed on the banks of the Nile, which by its
overflow annually obliterated the land-
mIrks, qui the restoration of these land-
marks made such a science necessary—l
nay geometry ever since then has been
busy with lines, straight lines, curved
lines, lines in angles and cones and spheres,
but has never been able to evolve any
beauty from In line that was merely crook-
ed. The circle and the square were always
considered admirable. lsainh recognizes
the circle and says, “The Lord sits upon
the circle of the earth." The altar of the
ancient tabernacle was “four square," and
the breastplates of the priests “four
square," and henveu, according to St. John,
is"four square." But the Bible has no
admiration for lines that are merely crook-
ed. Indeed my text in prophesying the
world’s complete rectification declares,
“The crooked shell be made straight."
There have been so many moral earth-
quakes that mnny things have got into I
terrible twist-wracked lows, crooked gov-
crnments,crookcd fortunes, crooked dis-
positions—«rid many of the cdorts to
straighten things have only made them
more crooked. And some good people sit
down in despair and become pessimistic,
and give up life, and the church, and the
world as dead failures. With such luchry—
mosebchnviorlhnve no sympathy. it is
a promise of the Lord Almighty: “The
crooked shall be made straight." 1 pro-
pose, as I may be divinely helped, to men-
tion some of the crooked things that are
going to be straightened.
IXJL'STICE AND lXEQL’ALlTi‘.
Much of the wealth of the world is in the
hands of the proliigntc, while many of the
best people are subjected to distressing
privation: and there is going to be a redis
tributiou of property. if it were possible
it would he a bad thing to have things
divided cquully, Some men are oble to
endure more sum-est: than others, and pros-
perity that might not unbulnnma you might
destroy me. The Declaration of American
Independence declares that all men are
born equal, but the opposite is the truth,
for they any born unequal. In no respect
ia this more evident than in their capacity
to endure success, financial or social. l
have seen men by the acquisition of fifty
thousand dollars mode arrogant sud over—
bearing. and l have knmm other» with
their millions of Ilollnrs childlike nnd uxr
assuming and Christian We would all
be affluent, but the inn! cannot trust us.
I am glad there are thnsche can trust.
Much is said uuuinst capitalists. but the
world would be u vrry shaky world with—
out (hum.
\Vho built the prom ruilronds which,
while they give such facilities of travel,
employ tom of thousands of lulsircrs, sup
porting them and their families? (‘upitul-
ists. Who built [:th shim that stir the
rivers and bridge the Iva-am? Capitalists.
Who reared the timmunds uf factories all
over the hmd in which hundreds of thou-
sands of employee-I cum their dnily bread?
Capitalists. Who endowed your mile-gen,
and opened free libraries, and built
Myiums fur the urplmn, the crippled and
the insane? ('upitnllsls. lint for them
there Wmllll not be :m :u'mlcmy of music,
or :- picture gallery, or .'| free library. or a
HIP,“ about, or u ruilmml in America. Who
pm the world on seventyrf‘lve yours be
ymnl wlmt it, would have been in I-an-r-
prisv, in ('anllOl’lSI, in mlumtiounl ndvmif‘
size, in good things without number? (‘up—
imlisln,
The more money u mun new the better if
it come honestly And i. rmploycd righb
eouI-dy. chcrllu‘lcfis \u- all milmt there
needs lobe :l rulinlrihml-m of property.
(‘oummnism proposes in umke that distri-
bution by torch and dagger and dynamita
Throw the midnight express train off the
truck and put the factory lnmconflngru
tlon; disrupt society, burulurizv. assim-
sinsio. Such people ll'llt‘n' neither in
find nor mun Imr woman, uml they know
how to make things wurw, but never have
made and never mm make anything better.
mm's mzrmm or luiiIHThllu’TmS.
l h-lI you how there will ('mnu n redistri-
bution of property l'nder the divine
lill'fi‘ilflg stood people will get more! niert~
new und acumen uml M‘Ilillllf.)‘. Many
good people Mr kept in struiiennl circum»
Itenm lurcmm- they have been indolent, or
inked courage to who honest mlvnntego
of circunmuucrs, and were too Itupld to
not on. With the very same surroundinp
others went on to mmpvlcncy. In the M
trr II")?! In collie Limrl men will have their
im'ultim Imkenml. mu! will in consequence
riscto lancer shurcuf prosperity. On the
other bond. mien-n wrongfully Iceumw
Intml will dissolve. if not the sons, then
the grandson» will [nuke the money fly,
and is will grndnully scnth-rinthrirhnnds,
nml LI-mmw n purl of the general wcnlib
Tin-n am to vent properties rigbfmml'.
gutuvml nod there are Ilmlunnds of fin m
«stub Mtutm will contribute toward lu'lp
ing the unfortunate, not more by chnrllim
than by helping struggling people into
lucrative business. and the man who has
Imam! enough Imd a nurplus willmy:
"There is a young merchant without any
capital. I will start him on Plilllm V! t'."
and "them is :1 young mcchnnicw ohm
norm-mm his ownmnd I will pit him
on a career of prosperity" null "th in n
farmer with too big o manage on his lllllll,
sad i will help him lift the Incnmlnance "
The fact is that if the himilim-II and mm
trashy manifested by moneyed men In»
ward the smuggling during "rebut ilfIy
your increases in the some ruIio furlhe
next fifty wars there will be I condition oi
society imrsdishlc. We are going to have
I multi Ication of William l1. lhigm Ind
m W and James lanoxcs and
George Peabody; So will com rcdietrli
button. Ind the crooked will be mode
undertook I
h worth Ill
world 1!!
undo-III» to thb
gospel influences, if he he.
the power he will do what he IIyI he will.
end no one who amounts to anything will.
deny his power. God hessaid ahundred
“man, "I will," but never once he- said,
"I cannot." We may with our tack ham-
mers pound sway, trying to mend and im-
provesud straighten the nix-nets! condi-
tion of the world, Ind be disappointed in
the mult because our arm is too went
and the hammer we wield too small, but
the most defiant difficulty will flatten and
disappear when God with a hammer mode
of summer thunderbolts strikes it, saying,
“The crooked shall be made straight."
cop's min In humus AFFAIRS.
In your business concerns there urelm
finances perplexing. Your affairs 1113me
all right to outsiders, for busineu firms do
not advertise their private troubles; but
where one firm has everything just as they
want it there are a hund'd firms at their
wita’ end what to do with that partner
who draws more than his share of the
profits, or with that stockholder who comes
in just often enough to upset things, or
with that disappearance of funds which
you cannot account-for, although you have
suspicions you cannot mention; or with
that vestmcnt which was made contrary
to yo I judgment because there was a de-
tenninatlon to push it through, or because
you are going behind month by month
without any prospect of tricution. The
trouble is putting s wrin e on your forc-
hesd that ought not to appear there forte]:
years yet, and you will he 40 years old
when you ought to be only 50, or 60 when
you ought to be 50, or 70 when you ought
to he only iii). Stop worrying; either by
the dissolution of that firm or by readjust-
ing matters you will be brought safely
through if you put your trust in God.
When commercial houses fail the sus-
pension is advertised, but of the tens of
thousands of men who are every day ex-
tricated no public mention is made. Yes—
terday was Saturday", and Ivvarrnnt that
osthe windows of banks, and in counting
rooms of stores, and on every street of
every city, God appeared for the deliver»
nnce of good men as certainly as when
with his right foot he trod Lake Galilee
into placidity, and made Daniel as safe
among the lions us though they had been
house dogs asleep on a rug before a win-
ter’s fire. Throw yourself on the promise
of the text, or a hundred other texts mean—
ing about the snare thing.
I never yet asked God to do anything but
he did it if it were best,und in all the
cases where my pmycr him not been on.
swercd I have found out afterward that it
was best not to have been answered in my
way. But none of us has tested the
full power of prayer. It is n force very like
some of the forces of unfun- that were in
existence, but not employed. For ages
electricity was thought good for nothing
but to burn burns and kill people with one
fell stroke. The lightning rod on the top
of houm wns the spear with which the
world chnrgcd on the thunder storm, as
much as to say, "If you dun- to come this
way I will hurl you into the ground."
But now electricity lightens homes and
churches and cities and I‘hristcudorn and
moves rail cure. and he is u rash man who
mentions anything as impossible to this
natural energy.
So the power of pr: .lyer u as to the world
rather I frightful power, if it was any
power at all. But that has been changed,
and men begin to use it in some things, and
the time will come when i: will be used in
I“ thin”, and there will be n Bible in
every counting room, and supplication will
lacend from every commercial establish—
ment. and when business; firms are formed
the question will not only be naked as to
how much this one Imd that one put in of
capital, but the qlwstion will be asked,
“Do you know how to pray?"
Imp Is EVERYTHING.
.\lighiicr agent Ihnn any natural force
yet devclngml will bethisgospel electricity,
flushing Imavcmvurd for help. flashing
eurthwanl with divine response. God in
hmincss life. God in agricultural life.
God in mechanical life. (ind in artistic life.
God in over)" kindof life. Your religion
for the most part is hung up so high you
cannot reach ll. It is hung up on the
cloudy raftersof the sky, where you expect
to snatch it up us you finally go through
for heavenly residence Uh, have your rc-
ligion within may rem-h now! Religion is
not for heaven, but It rthis world. Once
in heaven we will need no prayer, for we
shall have everything “1' want. We will
need no repentance, fur we shall have for-
ever got rid of our siua. We shall have no
need of comfort. for there will be no
lrmibie. The ('liri~tiull religion is not for
heaven, where everything is all right, but
for this world, where so muny thingsm all
wrong.
Washington Allsluu, “‘liuso name you
recognize m llin of it great American
painter, was reduced to extreme poverty,
and em- Iiny not on his knees and asked for
a loaf of bmul for himself and his starv-
ing family. While be won bowed in that
prayer thvn- mus n knock at the door and
I man mum in and moi: “How about your
painting, th." \nml l ria-l,‘ that received
the prim» :1 ii I' royal ucmlcmy’ "no it
been wbl ' . ' uuitl .\.ll~luu “How
much do II u v :Im for it?” \llsion re
pliculz' "S cm ulnm- IinnI: :i pride, for I can
not get if " "\‘I'ill (our hundred pounds
be enough” :ulml rim stranger. "Why,
[but in mun- llmn l naked," Hillel Album.
The fnur humliml pounds (two thousand
dollurmwvrv p;w|,uu-l the purchaser ln~
troducI-d iI‘Inv-wif us Marquis of Staflord,
who then-after wm one of the most liberal
patrons (If the mu-uml artist. “0h,thnt
Ill Just. happened sol“ Did in Tell that
to some ignorant mun. some benluhtcd
woman, who has never read the p,romile
“Cell upon Im- in the day of trouble, [will
deliver tine,” or that other promise, “The
crooked shall be made straight. "
"Well," snys one, “you don‘t apply this
In every direction." Yes. ido. Take the
most uncertain thing on earth—Abe weath-
er. The Bible distinctly says thIt prayer
controls the weather. Janice v, 11', 13: "Eli-
un nun mun subject to like passions ill
no “N“,fllltl he, prnyul came-fly that it
might not rum: end it rained not on the
earth by the sympof time you" and six
months. And hu- prays-d again, and the
heaven guve rain Do you say that mm
the weather of olden time? There have been
instances in modern times quI ll marvel-
Ins. There's not a Christian ship captain
but could give you instances of divine hr
tom-rem with the weather in answer to
prayer.
It has been my good Iortnne to know
many ship cumulus, Theyarc in IlIonr
service; They leave their rennin on Bun
clay morning: and join us in worship. I
warrant there are enough of them met
this morning to take Iwholc fleet in safety
corms the Atlantic. Whenever i have
heard than: testify it hip mightily coir
Irmedmein whatlknew Mormtquod
wither.
«new
we and III-In
cum I tempest, and wewere
Iii may torn, but to the surprise of most
people the next dsy we saw the announce-
ment that the atmospheric fury had
its course. The probehilityis it.
Itrnc I prayer. The prohnbllit is It
struck I prayer and glanced of! f EliaI’
prayer Inflected the weather of PIlestine
for forty'two months I should thinksomo
body now might hnvc a prayer that wonId
enact it for a couple of days
msuusw ANSWER 1'0 PRAYER.
John Easter was many years ago In
evugelist in Virginia. A large outdoor
meeting was being held in that state.
Many thousands hnd Imsembled in the
open air, and heavy storm clouds began to
gather. There was no shelter to which
the multitudes could retreat. The rain
had already reached the adjoining holds
when John Blister cried out, "Brethren,
he still while i call upon God to stay the
storm till the gospel is preached to this
multitude." Then he knelt and prayed
that the audience might be spared from
the min, and that after they had gone to
their homes there might come refreshing
showers. Behold the clouds parted us they
came near, and passed to either side of the
crowd, and then closed :Ignin, leaving the
place dry where the audience bud assem'
bled, and the next duy the postponed
showers came upon the ground that had
been the day heforeomitted. Do you say
it only happened so? I cannot see what
you keep your Bibles for, and the God you
worship is not my God. Your God is on
autocrat, and be is so far off and so far up
that the world cannot touch him, and his
throne is on eternal iceberg. My God is a
(other, here and now, and u father will
give his child who! be lots for if it is best
for him to have it, Pray about everything
that concerns you. seculzlrities us well as
spirituolitics. Take to God all your un-
noyanccs and pcrplexiiics. The crooked
shall be mndc It might.
Some people tell: as though God control-
led things in general. but not in particu-
lar; that he started every thing under cer
tain laws and then let it take care of it-
self. as an engineer might start his loco
motive on an iron rnilrond track and then
jump off. What would happen to such a
locomotiveis what would long ago have
happened to our world if God had started
it and afterward allowed it to look out for
itself. There is no such thing as a general
providence. It is a particular providence.
God bus no general cure for aforest. It is
a core of every cell of every leaf and root
in that font-sf. lml has no general care of
the ocean. it is u care of every drop of
water in the liquid magnitude. God him
no general cure for the human race. It is a
cure of every individunl of that race and
of every item of individual history. l
preach him, a God in infinitesimls, an
everyday God, a God responsive, and one
breath of earnest prayer, though that
breath should not be strong enough to
make a candle flicker, will absorb more of
the divine attention than if the archangel
standing at the foot of Ihethrone should
flap both wings,
Goo anlH lill> xulox.
It is remarkable how many crooked
things sire in the providence of God being
made strmzln. About thirty years ago
our nation. irs were as crooked as do
proved Am" Imn politics and bed men
and S" .n (wild make them. From the
top of .\luim in tho- foot of Florida the na-
tion was ml with wrath. it was wrangle
and fight all the way through, and one of
the mildcst things that the north and
south prtmlibml each other was assassina—
tion. During this summer I have traveled
through ch York and Ohio and Illinois
and Indian: In! Minnesota and Kansas
and chn and Missouri and Texas
Ind lmsiamm :uul Gem-gin nnd North
sud South (‘urnlmu and Virginia and
Pennsylvania. Illlfl l have shaken hands
with lens of thousands of people, and
telkedwith mm of all sections and dc
grams, and l l.:u'c m :q-II you it is all peace,
and in all the slain-H1: the i’uiou you could
not now marshal u military company of
one hundred soldic; I In light against the
United States caveman-m, unless you got
your men out of ch.- pmitcntiary. Did the
corrupt and :ungrvnul political parties do
this work of rectification and pncification?
No! it. was by divine interposition that
the crooked bus been mmle straight.
On the 'lll of lMu-mln-r. lhfil, Louis Nov
polcon Bnuupurtc I‘mli' dmvnthc “bumps
Elysee of l'urlsnunl underline lmofs of his
horse u republic mu trampled as the
rider went in l.';lu' n. throne. it vvzu the
outrage of tlzo century. For nineteen
years the wrung triumphed. The will of
one mun who ‘.'.':Ill‘u.'ll m n-mniu emperor
kept down II nuri< u “bu wanted a repub-
lic. lint Scpirinbrr. 1570, arrived, and 30‘
dun unrullul it» t‘nlnaun scroll, Thor-m.
peror surrender with mom troops, 4H)
llI'lIl guns, I'M”; Emmi-d ImIl ”(LOUD muskcts.
From that tiny lbw ballot box was up and
the [hruiu- WM :1 mu. Free institutions
have been suthil u ml {or :m infamous mmr
nrchy. ‘l‘buuk limit The I'r‘erf‘Il has been
mud.- straight.
Hut WM) 41“” Iur in flml fulfillment of
my text? In Idiom livm flu-m unwnmked
things than need In be manic struigbf, and
such humor or rmulnr mll enumerate for
himself or lwi‘wif With one it is dilap-
idated pllysiml iI-iiltlIJnd you are shy
inn. "Whycunnn: l b0 ingemlhmlthwheu
l have such «IplmrflluiflI-s' l'lll'lflllt'h reamin-
silyillliI~"' .\lii'l fur tln- w-k headaches
and lb» riwuuutivjoints, an“. the neuralgia
Ihrmrn. and the lame lunf’, lluf you will
be Vivll mm. Lil:- ut the lnngent is an ab
brm‘inlnl Ilurmm- ’l'lu-re is n black doc
tor lhutuill rmv you. Sumo people cull
him lie-nth.
Nu disc-spu- was l't‘t‘r Able to stand before
his touch. I'Iw all the means afforded for
phynlcnl nu'upvru'ion, but if they fall the
hour of Mouse is not faraway. There need
be no iucurnhlm There is no sorrow that
heaven cannot cure. Those who in Ihla
world have always bet-u well will not get
the best purl of III-oven. They will not
have the advantage of minimal.
were well before they left this world, and
why should tlu-y be so grumbled It being
well in the next world? But to those. who
on earth were blush-ml m- broken down in
health whm. In contrast no they Itcpintn
that domain Winn" flu rebm never been
on aching lumv, nr Imm- foot, or inflamed
muscle, or Ilimnh-ml unrvr‘ l-‘ur forty
ycnnihcre may have been a flaming in
the hook, or n twisted muscle, or a curved
spine, or n crwkcd limb, but the premise
hm hem fulfilled, “The crooked shall be
made straight."
Tl”! l'ZNMAl'l‘UJ NAKRIZD.
In many a dmnmlic life are difficulties to
be removed. There are thousands of
mIIciIes that were not made In heaven.
Borne of the loveliest women have been
united to norms of the meanest, men and
Iorne of the grandest men In the most
worthless women. There may be no soul.
dent cause of divurcement, but there has
never been any accord. For them the wed.
ding march never to have been
every played. The I‘wfln divergent in sentiment,
the north Ind the south pole might
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thorough thoughtlmncu. I W fi ,
(cation of Inch to the rapid We!
families.
This thought, which Is I Indu- to I:
happy maritnlstatc, might be
to those unequally yoked. Am that
path is the path of life. The rolling It.
will give quick emancipation. W
for discipline, must have some m 0*
trouble, and that is your trouble Pm. in I
song new and then to cheer your Spirit.
Make the best of things. Find lnGod M
peace which no one else cIn bestow. Th.
days and months and years are cmdhl
past, and the lust of the procession, so (at
.5 you are concerned, will soon have men.
by. Remember that some of the but men
and women who ever lived havehnd the
lame lifetime of misfortune. They hon
up nuderir. and socan you. The expiry
tion of the life of one of you will, after u
while, remove the sanction. Let the One
that remains make no hypocritical mourn-
ing at the ohscquies of the one that goes,
or imitate those whom we have all no
ticed, who fought like cats and dogs all
their mnrried state and then could not get
organs to sound dirges dolefnl enough, or
furnishing stores to prepare weeds buck
enough or tombstone cutters to chisel
epitophs eulogistic :nough
it is a matter of congratulation that the
nnhappicst conjugal relation will termi-
nate. The crooked shall be made straight.
In the ages of the world when people lived
five or six or eight or nine hundred year!
such consolation for any kind of trouble
would have been inupt. It would have
brought no relief to some of those old patri-
archetomy, “You will have only seven bun-
dred years more of this." But life has been
abbreviated by the cutting off of century
after century until we can console people,
whether their trouble he financial or social
or domestic, by saying it will not be long
before the crooked shall be made straight.
cop WILL BELIEVE 1m: HORROW‘FUL.
But to those who were once happily
united on earth but are now separated the
same thought comes in a good cheer. Not
long separated! Tradition says that two
bells were molded and sent from Spain for
a distant land to chime in a church tower.
But while in a storm at seasons of the”
bells was wrecked. and only one reached
the shore and was hung in the church
tower. And some people thought that
when standing on the land they heard thfl
bell ringing for worship or in a wedding
peal they could at the same time hearer
the sea the lost bell ringingesif in no
spouse. Some of our friends and kindred
have crossed the stormy sea, and are In the
tower of God on high. But we are still in
the tempmr, and sometimes the surge.
beat over'us, but our souls are still in an»
cord with those who are gone, Ind they
ring down to us and we rmg up to them,
and there is a sympathy between III that
can never die.
“,Oh " says some one, ”the creek in my
lot you have not mentioned, and Xsit ole-r
outside of all the consolntions you have of—
fcrot." 'v'cii, I will take after you with
gospel comfort cud reach you before I
close. Do you think your wound is so
deep the divine Surgeon cannot treat it!
Have you a trouble thet ovcrmnstcrn God?
Is your annoyance of such a nature that.
you must suppress it? Ah, that is what is
killing you. Trouble must be told, or it
stings to death the one who carries it. If
there is no man or woman that you can
trust with the secret you can trust God.
Hie away to him. Tell him all about it.
Lock your do.» and tell him aloud, and if
you do not get relief you will be the tint
soul in the six thousand years of the
world's existence, and the only one of the
hundreds of millions of the human race,
who ever called on (Ind for help and didnot
get it. in all the universe. in all eternity
there input an exception. Stop brooding
and commence praying.
l bless my God film: while there are so
many crooked things, in life there are some
things so straight God himself could
not make them straighter. Divine help
comes straight to these who will have it.
The angels of mercy fly straight when they
undertake n rescue. The hour of your
final deliverance marches straight out of
the eternities. \ml as the carpenter puts
down his rule on a piece of timber, and
with his as hows away until the lull»
quality and irregularity disappears, Io
when God in the last great day shall put
down his unfailing measuring role buide
that event which seemed the meet I!“
in our livcw or in the world it will he
found out that the lust discrepancy h.
vanished, and the lust wrong ha; been
righted, and the but crooked thing h“
been made st might
on Time ”Circuit Eldon."
It is impossible for the present generation
of preachers to appreciate the toils 01M
predecessors in the west and south. The
lobe.- of “riding u circuit" was incredibly
great. Roads vvrre mere bridlepflh
through the Wilde-rows. There we!!! no
bridges, When sire-urns were narrow and
shallow flu-y m-n- tamed; when deep and
widI- the lnm-ly rider not! his clothe. in I
bundle on his. bowl and forced his can.»
swim. ()fu-n there was not even a
semblance of umml, mm! the preacher found
hm way by lllf'ttmmpufl, or, If hchsd none,
by the coursv of the um by day and Ill
position of certain well known star! by
night. If be it»: his course there W.
nothing for him to do but camp out all
night. if in: bad the means he built a fire
Cancun-away the wolvvs. hear» curl "an
more feared pnuthers. I! ihevvild bent.
were not numerous in: ulcpt, but if hen-W
half admu-u pairs of glowing cycsin IN
cinlo of darkness round hln fire he stayed
awn-kc, pilmlnn more wood and now and
then shouted: ml rust flaming brands It
the “vzirmints” that came too clone.
Nor were the discomforln of "ml .5
only annoyances, A fter n day's mflrflv
ing he would reach, long after ulghlflll. I
Millellwnt where Methodists well In
plenty. 'i‘ircvl nimml iodmth he enter;-
the log cabin of n good brother, Ind would
give- all his worldly yumiom for a
chmm- to lay his head on his saddle and
gr) to elm-p at once. Hut not lo. Tb.
preacher must be entertained. The old
woman and the girlsbrgnn hurried enli-
nnry nymrutimm, A boy is sent onto! Ibo
cabin with whispered unborn about "tut
red pnich." Five minutes Inter them
or been It chicken squall, and ham to
must wait lor Iupper infuri- he will beat
lowed to III-r9
An hour pauses sway, relieved by thou"
mun' I Inquiries about Brother m
and Sister finch mom on the unearn-
other clrcuit,u Ind the weary pro-chafi-
dawn to I Imppcr of corn bread bimodal
the amide, dough in the middle; a“.
chicken swimming in fut, and ryes‘.
mad with maple Inn: A“ U
nut eat. too, Ilse his bolt Ind w
mountain him proud Ind ”sleek up," .fl
“too to III common folkI’ M”
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