Effecting A Settlement

Effecting a Settlement.

"On one occasion," remarked a well known Methodist minister who had been a circuit rider in the mountains of North Carolina, "a man from a neighboring county swooped clown on our side and carried off the wife and mule of one of my church members. There was an immediate agitation, and in the midst of it I arrived. A consultation was held, and it was decided that I should go as peacemaker and ambassador and effect a settlement. Just before I started the bereaved husband called me to one side for private conference.

" 'I reckon, parson,' he said, 'that you oughter to know my feelin's in this thing.'

" 'Of course-certainly,' I assented.

" 'Well, I tell you what you do. Don't be brash about it ner focety, for l'm a man uv peace, but ef he'll give you $47 in money for the mule you needn't ter say a doggone word about the ole woman.' "