Too Persuasive

Recorder - You are charged witli chokin"-, beating and kicking Parson Bledso, without "the slightest provocation. The evidence shows that he addressed you in the most courteous manner, asking af ter your health, whereupon you 'feil upon him like a savage. "You'dunno Parson Bledso, does ver, boss?" "I do not." "Jedge, no man honolis Parson Bledso moah den I do. He is u puffeo genwaea of de ole kool. "What did yon break the bridge of his nose and kiek him in the abdomen for, then?" "Jedge, he is the persuasivist talker you eber heerd. Kf I hadn't hit him in the mouf in one moah minit, he would hab borrowed dat dollah I se been snbin u to go to the suekus wid, but I has got a better skuse dan dat ar." "What is it?" "You see Parson Bledso bas been preachin' powerful anii chieken stealin', an1 I has been makifl' an earnest effort to reform. I haint pulled a pullet in two days. Fi I hadn't hit de pasture in de mouf he would hab talked me buten dat ar suckus dollar, and den-" "What then?" "Den, ob course, some white mans shicken coop would hab had to furnish ie kerlaterals to raise annudder suekus dollar. 1 would habbackslid, sure, an' de parson heeself, would hab been ter blame foah de defection in de party." - "Yes, I see." "So j-ou see, do you boss, dat when my pasture run his mouf ao-inmy knnekles, when I reached out from de slioulder, I was starting a culled reform movement." The recorder took the case onder advisement. He said he wanted to look up the authorij ties. Nathaii Thompson recent ly pickod lip etght Öiiiinisli mille! dollars, sónicas olF as 1723, on liidian lsland, uear Solon Ferry, Mc.