A Soft Soap Backet,
“Y. u see," said the bd boy to th<*
groc' n uji/i. "palike* a joke the beet
of any man you ever saw. if it ia on
somebody eln, but he kicks I ke a
eteer w.ien it ia on him. I asked this
morning if it wuuidu'l be a good jr.k*
to put some soft soap on the front
door step, so the le tar-carrier would
slip up jj-l spill bisaelf, and pa said it
•ould h# elegant. Ps is aD. mocrat
nd he thinks that anv’bi g that will
m*ke it unpleasant lor Republican
office ho'deiß is legitimate, and he en
couraged me to paralyzes the letter
carrier. The letter carrier ia aa old
a man as pa, and I didn't want to
humiliate him, but jitt wanted pa to
*ivi hie consent, so be couldn't kiok
if he got caught in his own trap
You ee? Well, this morning the min
ister and two deacons called on pa to
bare a talk with him about his actions
in church on two or three ocoaaions,
and they bad a pretty hot time in the
back parlor, and finally they settled
it, and were going to sing a hymn
when pa handed them a little hymn
book, and the minister opened it, and
turned pale and said,'what's this ?’
and they looked at it, and it waa a
book of Hoyle'a games instead of a
hymn-book. Wasn’t tha minister
mad ? He had started to read and he
quit after he had read two lines where
it ssid, ‘ln a game of four-handed
euchre never trump your p rtner'a
ace, but rely on the ace to take the
trick on eult.' Pa wae trying to ex
plain Low the book came to be there,
when the minster and deacona start
ed out and then I poured the two
quart tin pail, full of soft soap on the
front step. It was turn white toap,
just the color of tha step, and when I
got it spiead I went down in the I ada
mant. The visitors came out and pa
was trying to explain about Hoyle,
wbeu one of the deacons stepped iuto
I. e soap, an I his feet flew up and he
struck on bis pants and aliddowu the
steps. 