No Shirking.

Otago Witness, Issue 2173, 17 October 1895, Page 49

No Shirking.

The amount realised in a collection not infrequently depends on tho individual who j " takes it up."' This fact ia well realised by a j gcod piistor who srfvea in a Colorado mission. ■ '• We keep him," writes Dean H<\rt, ol Denver, J giving Iho pastor's name, "on the frontier. He is a rough diamcnJ, and has a knack with the | miners'." Not long ago this excellent preacher wefifc to a camp called Rico, borrowed the dance hall over the Baloon for bia service, " rounded up the boys," as he expresses it, and filled the hall. After the sermon came the collection. This was a very important feature. Tha preacher cast his eyej over his audieiics, and saw a oei> tain "hard cas»," known as Billy tho Kid. 14 Billy." ho said, " tako up tho colleolion." 1 Very much honoured, Billy took his big sora-

brero hat, and with an air of importance and dignity made his way round to the fronb, and held out the hit towards a spruce young miner on the foremost, chair.

' The young mn.n droppt din a quarter of a dollar. Billy looked a1;a 1 ; tho cdvi with one oyo cX Sud. Then ho looked at the young man, and put hio own hand around under his coat tails to the place where, iv that part of the country, revolvers are kuown to ba carried. " Look hero, young man," said Billy, eyeing him gravely, "take that back! This here's a dollar show ! " Then, with his hnt in one hand and the other still on the revolver, he movel around the hall, and got as many dollars us theve wero people.