People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — A Cautious Parson. [ARTICLE]

A Cautious Parson.

“Dat’s a monstrous fine chicken, Mlstaih Bradley. Jest lift him.” “No, thank you, Mis’ Johnsing. I wouldn’t like to give no occasion to de unregenerate to remark dat I lifted a chicken since I took possession of de pulpit desponsibiliters.”