human
About two months ago, said Larkin,
gpt
I had an appointment to preach in a private house. The boys of the family had a pet sheep which they had taught to butt. Going near him, they would make motions with their heads, and the sheep would back out and dart forward at the boys; but they would jump aside and so escape. A drunken man came into the congregation and sat on the end of a bench near the door. He had caroused the whole night before and presently began to nod. As he nodded and bent forward, the sheep came along by the door and seeing the man moving his head up and down, took it as a banter and backed and then sprang forward, and gave the sleeper a severe jolt right on the head, and over he tilted him. The whole congregation laughed outright and I joined in with them.
human
The tipsy man surely was the butt of that joke. A clergyman from down Cumberland River way said:
gpt
I hope the sheep knocked drunkenness out of him and common sense and decency into him.
human
Now Brother Harvey, let us hear from you.