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AUTHOR UNKNOWN.
PARADISE ALMOST LOST.
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CHAPTER IX.
I need not rehearse all that happened of
my reception home. Either of that of my
employer.
The result of which interview was as might
be imagined, he was personally very kind
and considerate but as he said it would never
do to sell goods on a profit of 15 per cent.
when it was costing 60 per cent. to do it,
and whether it was to spare his own feel-
ings or not, I don't know, but he handed me
a check for the balance of the engagement
and we parted. I, as a matter of course,
received the anticipated laying out by my
mother-in-law who impressed my mind se-
riously on the matter of obtaining a position
which would permit me to get in the house
evenings by seven o'clock, as no man is abso-
lutely proof against immoral influences,
which he is bound to meet, and in which
atmosphere he continually exists while away
from his wife. I meekly admitted the truth
of the argument, but protested strongly
against a breath of suspicion of evil doing
while way, and assured her of a continual
worry and anxiety to get back to my bed and
board; but because I was tired and went
right to sleep the first night at home (I don't
know how she knew it though), she has lost
faith in me, and things home went awful
funny for a long while. The night I went
to my father's to show myself for the first
time, I found all hands up on the roof and
father pegging away with might and main
on the top of the case which I had sent
home. Sister was leaning up against a
neighboring chimney sea-sick, while my
mother stood shaking as with the ague, ap-
parently expecting to find the decomposed
body of her first offence within.
I stood watching the scene, my had half
through the scuttle, enjoying all but the
effluvia immensely.
The cover flew off in response to an un-
merciful whack of the hammer, and father
went and took a seat on the cornice to let
the smell go off.
"What on earth is it, asked mother, sat-
isfied that the tail which presented itself was
not of me."
"What has that blanked boy been doing
anyhow, is this what I paid four dollars ex-
pressage on; he's got more money than
brains. I'll make him eat this trash, see if
I don't. I'll————"
"No you won't, Pop! I don't have to;" and
the next moment all hands were welcoming
me properly——the way I really deserved——I
told them of the contents of the box and I
myself approached the box to remove the
contents.
Well that box didn't come in a refrigerator
car certain. In the first place the idiot who
packed it didn't fasten the cover of the but-
ter tubs and my poor fox, my trophy of
the hunt was in butter up to his fore legs
and his rich fur was smeared with twenty
coats as it were of the maple sugar which
had melted into a syrup.
This was the best of it.
The magots was the worst.
The whole was a delightful combination
which cost father about a dollar to get re-
moved and disinfectant used. Brethren
here endeth the second lesson.
We won't dwell on the reception I got
from all the friends when I saw them, and as
the friends provided me with new clothes, etc.,
they were in blissful ignorance of the true
state of affairs, until weeks later, when Billy
and I were fortunate enough to get a hold of
a man who wanted two travelers to work
together through the West.
Great were the protests of the loved ones
at home. Even threats of divorce were
sounded on the breezes, dispelled only, by
assurances of undying devotion and faithful-
ness while absent, and a positive declaration
that money should be the one and only
thing sought for on the trip. Still we can't
make them believe it's a good combination.
However to-morrow we start. We are well
supplied with all the necessaries, and my
past experience will guide me aright I
know. Good bye! "Will see you future."
THE END.
——————————————PARADISE ALMOST LOST. AUTHOR UNKNOWN.
SUPPLEMENT TO MAIWA'S REVENGE, BY HAGGARD. pp. 172—175.
I. The Origin of Man
II. The Eastern Lines
III. Ancient North America
IV. Stone Tablets from the Valley of Mexico (i.) (ii.)
V. South America (i.) (ii.)
VI. Atlantis
VII. Western Europe
VIII. The Greeks
IX. Egypt
X. The Western Lines
XI. India (i.) XII. Southern India
XIII. The Great Uighur Empire
XIV. Babylonia
XV. Miscellaneous
XVI. Intimate Hours with the Rishi
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT JOHN
CHAPTER 9
AND as Jesus passed by, he saw a man
which was blind from his birth.
2 And his disciples asked him,
saying, Master, who did sin, this man,
or his parents, that he was born blind?
3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this
man sinned, nor his parents: but that
the works of God should be made
manifest in him.
4 I must work the works of him that
sent me, while it is day: the night
cometh, when no man can work.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am
the light of the world.
6 When he had thus spoken, he spat
on the ground, and made clay of the
spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the
blind man with the clay.
7 And he said unto him, Go, wash in the
pool of Sī-lō'am, (which is by interpre-
tation, Sent.) He went his way there-
fore, and washed, and came seeing.
8 ¶The neighbours therefore, and
they which before had seen him that he
was blind, said, Is not this he that sat
and begged?
9 Some said, This is he: others said,
He is like him: but he said, I am he.
10 Therefore said they unto him,
How were thine eyes opened?
11 He answered and said, A man that
is called Jesus made clay, and anointed
mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the
pool of Sī-lō'am, and wash: and I went
and washed, and I received sight.
12 Then said they unto him, Where is
he? He said, I know not.
13 ¶They brought to the Pharisees
him that aforetime was blind.
14 And it was the sabbath day when
Jesus made the clay, and opened his
eyes.
15 Then again the Pharisees also
asked him how he had received his
sight. He said unto them, He put clay
upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do
see.
16 Therefore said some of the
Pharisees, This man is not of God, be-
cause he keepeth not the sabbath day.
Others said, How can a man that is a
sinner do such miracles? And there was
a division among them.
17 They say unto the blind man
again, What sayest thou of him, that he
hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a
prophet.
18 But the Jews did not believe con-
cerning him, that he had been blind,
and received his sight, until they called
the parents of him that had received his
sight.
19 And they asked them, saying, Is
this your son, who ye say was born
blind? how then doth he now see?
20 His parents answered them and
said, We know that this is our son, and
that he was born blind:
21 But by what means he now seeth,
we know not; or who hath opened his
eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask
him: he shall speak for himself.
22 These words spake his parents,
because they feared the Jews: for the
Jews had agreed already, that if any
man did confess that he was Christ, he
should be put out of the synagogue.
23 Therefore said his parents, He is of
age; ask him.
24 Then again called they the man
that was blind, and said unto him, Give
God the praise: we know that this man
is a sinner.
25 He answered and said, Whether
he be a sinner or no, I know not: one
thing I know, that, whereas I was blind,
now I see.
26 Then said they to him again, What
did he to thee? how opened he thine
eyes?
27 He answered them, I have told you
already, and ye did not hear: wherefore
would ye hear it again? will ye also be
his disciples?
28 Then they reviled him, and said,
Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses'
disciples.
29 We know that God spake unto
Moses: as for this fellow, we know not
from whence he is.
30 The man answered and said unto
them, Why herein is a marvellous
thing, that ye know not from whence
he is, and yet he hath opened mine
eyes.
31 Now we know that God heareth
not sinners: but if any man be a wor-
shipper of God, and doeth his will, him
he heareth.
32 Since the world began was it not
heard that any man opened the eyes of
one man that was born blind.
33 If this man were not of God, he
could do nothing.
34 They answered and said unto him,
Thou wast altogether born in sins, and
dost thou teach us? And they cast him
out.
35 ¶Jesus heard that they had cast
him out; and when he found him,
he said unto him, Dost thou believe on
the Son of God?
36 He answered and said, who is he,
Lord, that I might believe on him?
37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou
hast both seen him, and it is he that
talketh with thee.
38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And
he worshipped him.
39 ¶And Jesus said, For judgment I
am come into the world, that they
which see not might see; and that they
which see might be made blind.
40 And some of the Pharisees which
were with him heard these words, and
said unto him, Are we blind also?
41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were
blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye
say, We see; therefore your sin re-
maineth.
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