T. G. Trice.
Then a lady from the South gives a laughable account of what happened down there over one of the colored preachers getting a message in this most unexpected way:
Dear Mr. Miner,—
I think you will be interested in knowing about some of your geese and ducks. While I was in Mississippi last winter I visited in Louisiana and Arkansas. Along the last of November some of the negroes on the plantation went over on the sandbar to hunt for wild geese, and they got several ducks and two big grey geese, and on one of the legs was a tin tag with a Bible inscription on it. The old darky that happened to get it was a great preacher; could not read a word, but was gifted with lots of gab and exhorted quite a lot. He thought the message came down from heaven and they had quite a revival over it. I heard him one night and he said: “This am the message of the Lord. I saw Him descending with this fowl in His arms, and it flew right at me. And now am the Judgment coming, and we are the elected, and am going straight to His arms.”
I don’t remember just what verse it was, but I remember it was your address and think perhaps this will interest you.
Yours truly,
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The following are the names and post office addresses given me of each person who has killed or reported the ducks. And fully seventy-five per cent. of the tags reported have been returned and are in my possession.
IN CANADA
Alberta.— Arch. S. Coutts, Earlie. F. A. Rispler, Lac la Biche. Manitoba.— T. H. P. Lamb, Moose Lake. Ontario.— W. S. Falls, Amherstburg. F. C. Clarkson, Toronto. A. Chaphus, Windsor. Henry Smith, Walpole Island. Thomas Moore, Amherstburg. Alexander Moore, Amherstburg. Dr. Rutherford, Chatham. John Harris, Kingsville. E. O. Scratch, Kingsville. William Scratch, Kingsville. Franklin L. Warner, Fort Francis. Quebec.— Dr. L. P. Legendre, Ste. Croix. Saskatchewan.— H. J. Koep, Englefeld. S. W. Brooks, Humboldt.