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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1885, 18 January 1875, Page 2

" Moe'n You'll KEEp/'—Some yeite ago an old sign-painter, who was veX cross, very gruff, and a little deaf, was engaged to paint the 10 commandments on some tablets in a church not five miles from Buffalo. He worked two days at it, and at the end of the second day the pastor of the church came to see how the work progressed. The old man stood by, smoking a short pipe, as the rev. gentleman ran his eyes over the tablets. " Eh! " said the pastor, as his familiar eye detected something wrong in the wording of the precepts; " why, you careless old man, you hare left a part of the commandments entirely out; don't you see?" "No; no such thing, " said the old man, putting oa bis spectacles;"no; nothing left out— where?" "Why, there," persisted the pastor, just look at it in the Bible; you have left sonic of that commandment out" "Well, what if I have?" said old obstinacy, as he ran hii eyes complacently over his work; "what if I have? There's mora there now than you'll keep ! " Another and a more correct artist was employed the next day. When the Arkansas census-taker next" goes around he will find Peter Dayton, missing from earth. The old man found' a package and threw it on the fire to see if it was powder or sand. It wasn't tand, —Detroit Free Press. .••...-.