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By Guy, if it hedn't bin for Oliver o' Deaf Martha's I should ha' said it wur hevin' a prayer-meetin' i' th' snow. What's brought owd Amos aat wi' Moses to say naught o' th' dog? Just then an oath reached the ears of the listening men. 'No prayer-meeting, Malachi, said Mr. Penrose, laughing.
When he had last seen Tom he was lounging in a half-drunken condition outside the door of the 'Crooked Cow, cracking tipsy jokes with the passers-by. 'Where is the prayer-meetin? he inquired presently. 'In owd Simes's shed an it's late too I mun hurry. 'Why, theer'll be plenty o' room in old Simes's shed. It's a fearfu big place.
"They say the Miss Cowies are great scholars." "Verra likly.�-But there's ae thing mair I wad put ye up till. Can ye tell the day o' the month that ye gaed hame wi' yer prayin' frien'?" "It was the nicht o' a special prayer-meetin' for the state o' Glamerton. I can fin' oot the date frae the kirk-buiks. What am I to do wi' 't whan I hae't, sir?"
"What's that for?" asked a young man of the party of a plain, farmer-like appearing man, who was just about to enter. "For prayer-meetin'," was the good-natured reply. "It wouldn't hurt you to come to it;" and the speaker passed into the lecture-room. "I call this frivolous assemblage to order," cried the youth, turning around to his companions.
We'll be as sober as nine deacons at a prayer-meetin'. And look out how you insult this young woman; she's a friend of ours, and we're bound to protect her. No asking of her to change her seat; she's going to sit right here to the end of the chapter." Mr. Durant looked his willingness to summon the police at once, but Mrs. Roberts' voice, evenly poised now, took up the story:
"Ah! a meetin'-'ouse'?" said the Slogger, with a slight smile of contempt. "Music-'alls and publics is meetin'-'ouses, ain't they?" "Ah, but they ain't prayer-meetin' 'ouses," rejoined the Slogger. "Not so sure o' that Villum. There's a deal o' prayer in such places sometimes, an' it's well for the wisitors that their prayers ain't always answered.
They were allus at it about puttin' on th' whole armour o' righteousness, an' fightin' the good fight o' faith. And then, atop o' 't all, they held a prayer-meetin' ower a young chap as wanted to 'list, and nearly deafened him, till he picked up his hat and fair ran away.
That's a secret, Tracey," he averred. "All right. Only, if you are, she's your'n." "Just how do you figure that out?" "Oh, I kin tell. She was in here to-night with Roland." "To-night?" "Yes, just afore you come home from prayer-meetin'. She was lookin' for you, and when she seen you wasn't here, she wouldn't wait for no soda nor nothin'. Said she had a headache an' was goin' home.
And so she took to goin' to the Wednesday-evenin' lecture, and the Friday-even-in' prayer-meetin', and the singin'-school, jest as regular as a clock, and so did he; and arterwards they allers walked home the longest way.
I didn' feel like gwine ter prayer-meetin', so I went roun' ter see Solomon Williams, an' he wa'n't home, an' den I walk' down street an' met Josh Green, an' he ax' me inter Sam Taylor's place, an' I sot roun' dere wid Josh till 'bout 'leven o'clock, w'en I sta'ted back home.
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