Angels Don't Chew Tobacco.
THE following is said to be true: A preacher out West, Mr. H., was a good man, but very rough in his ways, and very much given to chewing tobacco. One time he was riding on horseback through the country, when there came up a shower. Riding up to a cabin, he hastily hitched his horse, and knocked at the door. A sharp-looking old lady answered the summons. The preacher asked for shelter. "I don't take in strangers—I don't know you," replied the old lady, suspiciously. "But you know what the Bible says," said the preacher. "'Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.'" "You needn't quote Bible," said the old lady quickly; "no angel would come down from heaven with a quid of tobacco in his mouth as you have!" The door was shut, and the preacher unhitched his horse and rode away in the rain.—Sel.