Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — A Liberal Cleric. [ARTICLE]

A Liberal Cleric.

An Austin colored pastor, named Bledso, has made himself very unpopular with Jim Webster. He was passing the house of Jim, on Austin Avenue, when the proprietor called him in. “Come, parson, and hab a pifice ob cake and a glass ob wine. Dis heall am my buff day.” The reverend gentleman accepted the invitation. There was a large uncut cake on the table, and the clergyman was urged to cut it. “Whar shall I cut it?” he asked, taking up the knife, and looking at the cake in a bewildered sort of a way. “You kin jess hit whareber you pleases, parson.” “Which ? Say dat ober once moah.” “Jess cut hit whareber yer sees fit, parson.” A smile lit up the dusky features of the humble toiler in the Lord’s vineyard and he remarked fervently: “I’se much obleeged to yer, Jeems. Ib’leevede bes‘ place ter carve dis heah am in de seclusion ob my own .house, and, wrapping up the cake- in a newspaper, he carried it off under his arm.— Texas Siftings. The novel of the future will begin. “The full, bright mqon waa.juet silvering the tree-tops when a solitary coaehman, with a rope ladder under life arm, was seen wending his way,” etc. • o- • «■ ■ •. . ...