World-War Highways and by-Ways (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from World-War Highways and by-Ways Officers and Men of Camp Dewey: I remind myself to-day of an aged colored clergyman in the South who was arrested on a charge of having abstracted a chicken from the hen roost of one of his flock. He was brought before a learned colored justice for a hearing. After considering the evidence carefully, the learned colored justice was convinced that while there could be no moral doubt of the clergyman's guilt, the testimony was not sufficiently strong from a legal standpoint to warrant his being held for court and he discharged him in the following words: "The opinion of dis court am that Brudder Jasper didn't steel dat chicken, tho every one of us knows he did, and now Brudder Jasper get right down on your knees in dis here court and thank the good Lord that he done let you steal that chicken and live through without getting found out." I had thought that after a very strenuous lecture tour, covering a period of many months, during which I spoke from four to six times every week, and frequently preached on Sunday, that I might be able to spend a few weeks vacation at my seashore home on Cape Cod without getting found out, but it seems the officers of Camp Dewey have found me out, and that is why I am here to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.