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THE DRUM LAKE EASTER SERVICE. 
A story of the Michigan Pine Woods. 
BY HERBERT W. COLLINGWOOD 
Copyrighted by the Rural New-Yorker. 
(all rights reserved.) 
• • "'VTOT as I wants no hard feelinV betwixt 
Jl 1 Bill an’me,” explained Jim, “an’ not 
but 1 thinks everything of the Parson here, but 
could I speak to ye outside, mum?” And he 
winked again in the direction of the minister. 
Mrs. McKelvey threw a shawl over her 
shoulders, and went at once, knowing that it 
must indeed be something out of the usual 
line of events that would prevent Jim Foster 
from speaking out in public. 
Mr. McKelvey apparently had perfect faith 
in his wife. He kept at his work, only stop¬ 
ping once to sharpen his knife on the leg of 
his boot. A close observer might have de¬ 
tected a look of sorrow on that part of his 
face left exposed by his beard, but let us be¬ 
lieve that it was caused solely by the loss of 
the music. 
Mrs. McKelvey and Jim found Ben Stone 
waiting for them on the outside. There are 
many things that tempt one to believe that 
Jim and Ben had been sent as a sort of 
committee to perform the business which they 
unfolded to Mrs McKelvey. 
“Now,” said the landlady “you wanter talk 
quick fer h’Pra behind with my work.” 
Jim certainly consumed very little time in 
his introduction. 
“Do ye ’spose that we can git the Parson 
ter fiddle fer the dance down ter Cobb’s ?” 
Mrs. McKelvey held up her hands in holy 
horror. “The Parson at a dance ! ” 
“I knowed what ye’d say at fust, but wait 
till I tell ye about it. Ye see we hired Hank 
J cobs ter come over from Carter’s an’ play, 
but the boys from camp say he’s drunk an 
can’t come. We danced a couple o ’ sets ter 
Bill Gammon’s singin,’ but his wind gives out 
too quick. I was gonter quit an’ come up an 
have a visit with your kid, when Ben, he 
said that the Parson kin jerk a bow right 
alongside Hank. So I sed I’d come down an’ 
see what the prospeots is fergettin the Parson. 
It’l be a big thing fer him. He km git ac- 
quanted ’round, an’ the boys ’ll turn out big 
fer his preachin’ termorror.” 
Mrs. McKelvey very weakly hesitated. 
She ought to have told him at once that the 
Parson could not go, but the thought of Jim 
Foster leaving a dance to visit with her baby 
was too much. 
“ But I don’t believe ye kin git him ter go,” 
she o .jected.” 
“But I’ve gut an’ idee ter cover that 
pint,” said the diplomatic Jim; “I’ll jest 
tell him it’s a sorter soray like. We’ll 
introduce him ’round, and put him inter 
Cobb’s front room, an' then call on him for a 
tune. Then we’ll form on fer a two-by-four 
in the next room, an’ while he’s playin’ jest 
make the dust fly. Then we’ll cheer him big; 
an’ call him out agin, an’ the rest of the crowd 
kin dance. We’ve gut it all fixed up, an’ ye 
kin help us big, mum, by tellin’ him it’s all 
straight.” 
This plan was certainly both bold and origi¬ 
nal. Mrs. McKelvey hardly knew what to do. 
She was very anxious to please Jim, and yet 
the idea of the Parson forming the orchestra 
in a ball-room,struck her as a performance not 
exactly prescribed by the Church of England. 
It was too great a question for her to decide. 
Let the Parson decide for himself. 
“Go in, an’ ask Parson,” she said at last. 
“If you can git him to go, I won’t put no veto 
agin it,” and she turned back into the house. 
“All right,” said Jim gleefully. He con¬ 
sidered the worst of the battle over. “Come 
Ben,” he added, “les’ go in an’ tackle him ,’' 
and he led the way into the kitchen followed 
by Mr. Stone. 
As it may be that some of my readers may 
be called upon at some period of their lives 
to perform some delicate feat of diplomacy, 
I would ask them to note carefully Jim’s 
method of approaching the minister. They 
may be able to obtain some very useful 
hints. 
“Parson,” said Jim, when they were fairly in 
the room, “this is my friend, Mr. Stone. He’s 
go’nter come to hear ye preach termorror.” 
The “fool” rose to his feet to greet his 
parishioner. “I am glad to greet you, sir,” he 
said as he walked over to shake hands with 
our friend Ben. This action roused Ben to a 
realization of the fact that he was the “Mr. 
Stone” referred to. He had been called “Ben” 
go long that the new combination sounded 
strange to him. Thinking his part of the con¬ 
spiracy demanded some return for the minis¬ 
ter’s greeting, he shook the extended hand 
till the Parson winced. “How be ye, Parson,” 
he said in his pleasantest voice—“how’s 
tricks?” 
“I am well, I thank you,” replied the little 
minister, examining his hand to see if any of 
the bones remained. Tricks were evidently 
somewhat dull. 
“Wall, that’s bizness, health is wealth an’ 
wealth is health.’ I’m healthy an’ yet I ain't 
wealthy,” with which startling truism, Mr. 
Stone seemed to reach the limit of his conver¬ 
sational powers. He gave Jim an intimation 
of the fact by sitting down near Mr. McKel- 
voy. 
(TO BE CONTINUED.) 
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