Part 32 (1/2)
”You are quite certain that you can bring this ain?”
”We are”
”How do you know that you can?”
”We have just received a revelation fro us that we can”
”Are you quite sure that the revelation was from the Lord?”
”Yes; we cannot be mistaken about it”
”Does your power to raise this ain depend upon the particular nature of his disease? or could you now bring any dead man to life?”
”Itany corpse to life”
”Well, if this man had been killed, and one of his ar him to life, and also restore to hiiven us by the Lord It would s were cut off”
”Could you restore him, if his head had been cut off?”
”Certainly we could!”
”Well,” said the farmer, with a quiet smile upon his features, ”I do not doubt the truth of what such holy hbours here should be fully converted, by having the miracle performed in the completest manner possible So, by your leave, if it makes no difference whatever, I will proceed to cut off the head of this corpse”
Accordingly, he produced a huge and well-sharpened broad axe fro above his head, and was, apparently, about to bring it down upon the neck of the corpse, when, lo and behold!
to the aitation, and swore that, ”by hell and jingo,” he would not have his head cut off, for any consideration whatever
The company immediately seized the Mormons, and soon made them confess that the pretended dead man was also a Mormon elder, and that they had sent him to the farmer's house, with directions to die there at a particular hour, when they would drop in, as if by accident, and perforiving the impostors a severe chastise_ in some other quarter
These two ”_Elders of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints_,”
were honest Joe and his worthy _codon
CHAPTER FORTY ONE
The day of the fishi+ng at length arrived; our party of ladies and gentlemen, with the black cooks and twenty slaves, started two hours before sunrise, and, after a s row of tents, which had been erected for the occasion, on the shores of one of these nuroes were already on the spot, so breakfast, while others made ready the baits and lines, or cleaned empty barrels, in which our intended victims were to be salted
We scarcely had had time to look around us, when, from twenty different quarters, we beheld the approach of as reeted thery, eh, eh?--Saton, Caesar--quick--the breakfast”
For several days previous, all the creeks of the neighbourhood had been drained of their cray-fish, -outs and canoes froed to the lake, and it was very ahty boats and canoes of every variety, in which ere about to e inhabitants of the water
After a hearty, though somewhat hastywith hiro, to bait his line and unhook the fish; the paddles were soon put ina distance of fifty yards fro now reached the deepest part of the lake, bets were made as to ould pull up the first fish, the ladies on shore watching the sport, and the caldrons upon the fire ready to receive the first victier canoes, roes, were ordered to pull up and down the line of fishi+ng-boats and canoes, to take out the fish as they were captured
At a signal given by the ladies, the lines were thrown into the lake, and, al hurrah of a hundred voices announced that all the baits had been taken before reaching the botto that he had won his bet The winner, however, could never be ascertained, and nobody gave it a second thought, all being now too much excited with the sport The variety of the fish was equal to the rapidity hich they were taken: basses, perch, sun-fish, buffaloes, trouts, and twenty other sorts In less than half an hour ; and I should certainly have sunk with o, had it not been most opportunely taken out by one of the spare boats All was high glee on shore and on the lake, and the scene was now and then still diversified by co the er