A Very Painful "breaking Out."
The New England deacon of the olden tune was gifted with piety, good sense and an epigrammatic way of speaking. In the "Traditious of the Bello ws Family" mention is made of a Deacon Foster, of Walpole. who proposed to an aged widow by offering "to go the rest of the way to heaven vvith her." The offer was aocepted. One morning he rode up to the tloor of a lady in great haste, and told her that a nelghbor, Mrs. Carter, was In sore trouble, as she had been violently taken with "a serious and painful breaking out about he.r mouth. " The lady at once went to the neighbor's house, and discovered Mrs. Carter gplng about her duties, and nothing unusual on her face. Surprised, she told her of the deacon's message. "Well," answered Mrs. Carter, "I know what he meant. When he carne this morning, I was giving Ben Carter a piece of my mind for nis carelessness, and the good deacon thought my temper made
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