A PIRATE AT THE CAMP-MEETING.
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back to the Indian Ocean and put in the rest of his life trying to turn the pirates into the true path: for he could do it better than anybody else, being acquainted with all the pirate crews in that ocean; and though it would take him a long time to get there without money, he would get there anyway, and every time he convinced a pirate he would say to him, "Don't you
"A PIRATE FOR THIRTY YEARS."
thank me, don't you give me no credit, it all belongs to them dear people in Pokeville camp-meeting, natural brothers and benefactors of the race—and that dear preacher there, the truest friend a pirate ever had!"
And then be busted into tears, and so did everybody. Then somebody sings out, "Take up a collection for him, take up a
