Life — September 28, 1893 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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SEIORS AvE NvLLy HE gyasan old geotogist, Who loved a maiden fair, Because his fancy saw in her ‘So many beauties rare— Because her eyes were diamonds bright, And solid gold her curls; Because her lips were rubies red, Because her teeth were pearls. She told him that she would be his, The cunning little fox ! But the reason that she loved Aime was— Because he had the rocks. THe mountain circuit rider met me at the foot of Hurricane Gap in the Pine Mountains and we rode along together, and about a mile from where the roads forked we were stopped by a mountaineer, with a Winchester, whom the preacher knew. He pre- sented me in due form, and when the native knew I' was an “outsider” he didn't hesitate to talk. “No,” and the mountaineer hesitated. ‘* You know you have been at fer a long time erbout gittin’ religion, an’ I been a holdin’ off?” The preacher nodded and looked pleased, for there was tone of penitence in the native’s voice. ** Well, I've erbout made up my mind that I've got fer the p'int when some terbedone. Jim Gullins come by my place this mornin’ an’ killed one uv my dogs whe was away, an’ you've heerd me say what I thought of Jim Gullins many a time afore this The preacher nodded sorrowfully this time. “Well, I'm goin’ down to see Jim now,” continued the mountaineer, an’ if 1g him, I'll be’ ready to jine the meetin’ house when you come up in the mornin’; an'ef Jim gets nie, you'll have a funeral to preach, so’s you won't lose nothin’ by it nohow. I must be gittin® along ; good-bye,” and, slinging his Winchester into the hollow of his arm, be hurried away through the thicket, leaving the circuit rider and me sitting on our horses is the road completely knocked out by the suddenness of it all, and the peculiarity.—£x, alkin’ ter me ‘THE late Henry de Mille, who collaborated with David Belasco in a number of plays, used to tell this story: T once had an opportunity in a play Dave and I had written, «0 make use of the third verse of Psalm xciv., " Lord, how long shall the wicked, how shall the wicked triumph ?" ‘The actor who had this to speak came to me at ‘rehean one day, and objected to the line, which he said he considered very weak. He concleded his objections by asking if 1 was “stuck” on the line. I said I rather liked the line, but had no personal interest init, as in this instance I was only an adapter, the line being avid's, “David's eh?” exclaimed the actor; ‘that’s just what I thought. 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