Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 35, November 26, 1870 by Various
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page 43 of 73 (58%)
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Old Mother WINSLOW couldent play 2nd fiddle to his preachin, and her sirop is better'n a club to put children to sleep. Why, friend BEECHER, that ere minnister was warranted to talk a squallin young one to sleep in 30 seconds. When our Doctors had a leg to saw off, they always sent for Dominy CLOROFORM to put the patient to sleep. He dident preach "Rest for the weary" without practisin what he preached, by makin his weary congregation rest like kittens. But the old man has been scooped in, and our drug store has gone up on cloroform. His last words were:-- "Sweet sleepers, I go. I'le drug no more." And beneath the mirtle, the Canada thistle, and the gooseberry-bush he rests, with the follerin epitaff on his tombstun:-- Hee's gone to rest, don't wake him up, His labors heer are ore; He useter preach fokes fast to sleep, Who entered his church-door. Minnisters, in gettin hold of the public heart, resort to different ways. Some of 'em make love to the pretty little lambs of their flox of the |
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