Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 506, 25 Ianuali 1902 — He Prayed Hard. [ARTICLE]

He Prayed Hard.

An old man in Georgia named Jack Baldwin, having lost his hat in an old dry well one day. bitched a rope to a stump and let himself down. A wicked wag named Neal came along just then and. quietly detaching a bell from Baldwin’s old blind bor*e. approached the well bell in hand and began to ting-a-ling. Jack thought the old horse was coming and said: "Hang the old blind horse! He's coming this way sure, and he ain’t got no more sense than to fall in on me. Whoa, Ball!” The sound came closer. "Great Jerusalem, tne old blind fool will be right on top of me in a mlnit! Whoa, Ball! Whoa, haw. Ball!” Neal kicked a little dirt on Jack's head, and Jack began to pray; "Oh. Lord, have mercy on—whoa. Ball!—a poor sinner— I’m gone now; whoa. Ball. Our father who art in—whoa. Ball! —hallowed be thy —gee. Ball, gee! what’ll I do?—name. Now I lay me down to sl—gee. Ball!” Just then in fell more dirt. “Oh. Lord, if you ever intend to do anything for me —back. Ball! whoa! —thy kingdom come—gee. Ball! Oh. Lord, you know 1 was baptized in Smith's mill dam—whoa. Ball! ho! up! murder! whoa!" Neal could hold in no longer and shouted a laugh which might have been heard two miles, which was about as far as Jack chased him when he got out.—Atlanta Journal.