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A LITTLE TRUTH WELL PUT.

[ILLUSTRATION] [Description: 677EAF. Page 068. In-line Illustration. Image of a gentleman standing on a stoop with his luggage. He is talking to an old woman who has answered the door.]

SO you 've come down to attend
the adversary meetings,” said
Mrs. Partington, as she surveyed
the three trunks and two valises
and a basket that the cab had
just left, and the owner of them all, a gentleman in
black, with a ghostly-looking neckcloth.

“Ah!” said he, humoring her conceit and smiling, for
he expected to stay some days, “the adversary we meet
we subdue with the weapons of the spirit.”

“That is just what dear Deacon Sprig said when he
captivated the crazy Ingen with New England rum, and
then put him in bride'll. Says he, `I 'll subdue him
with the sword of the spirit' — he was sich a queer man!
These meetings are excellent for converting heathens and
saving the lost, and I do hope, after they have saved
everybody else, that they will try and save a few more of
their own that need teaching. There is a great many
round here that want looking after more than the heathen

do; and we must look after our own first, or be worse
than the infiddles.”

A pair of yarn stockings and a box of butter stopped
her mouth for the time, and the old silver spoons marked
“P. P.” and the antique china were brought out — articles
that were only used on state occasions.