GOOD FOR EVIL.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1578, 25 February 1887, Page 3

GOOD FOR EVIL.

[Vson Whangdoodle Baxter meets Jiin Webster, one of his parishioners. " I hopes dat yer am still walkin'in de narrer paff, Jeems." " I hope so, too, parson." " Does yer carry out tho ejolden rule ob returmn' pood for ebil ?"

" I has been returnin' good for ebil, but I'so been losing money at de bizimss. No later dan las' week I lost a dollar by dat ar foolishness." " How so, Jeems ?"

" Gibe Snodgrass asked mo ter change a dollar for him. I gib him two good silver half dollars for a bad dollar bill. Dat was returnin' good for ebil with a vengeance," " Jim Webster," said Parson Baxter, lookin' over his specs, " I wants ter aek yer a few queshions." " All right, parson." "Ter got de bad dollar bill las' week, didn't yer ?"

" Yes, pah." " \er wpnt to church las' Sunday, didn't ver ?"

" Hey ?"

" Ter heered m?. Needn't make out yer didn't heah me. I seed ver in church las't Sunday. I had my eye on yer. You were ekylarkin' wid dat naddle-cullered gal, Matildy Snowball. You was payin' no 'tenshun ter de gospel tidings; But dat's not the wrusset raskility yer has been ud ter." ' F

" Wh»t does yer mean, parson ?" " Las' Sunday dar was a bad dollar in do hat, and, as Moses said unter Nathan, " Dou art de man ;" and yet yer have the gall to tell me dat you am in de narrer paff. Here's de bad dollar, and you jess shell out a good one ef yer den't wanter be slammed on de groun' and wrapped aroun' a tree." " But, Parson Baxter—"

" Han' ober a good dollar for dis bad one. So dat's right. Now you haß been returnin' good for ebil some more. Tou are still in de narrer paff. Him what endureth to de end shell be saved. Good mawnin', Jeems', and, with a pleasant smile that seemed to meet behind his earp, Parson Baxter passed on.—Texas Siftings.