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[The Granger]

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Title

[The Granger]

Creator

[Unknown]

Source

http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1

Publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Date

July 1875

Contributor

Michelle Seref, Kelly Holler

Rights

Permission to publish images from The Gray Jacket must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.

Type

short story

Identifier

LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.1, no.1 (July 1875), p.2

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A Granger dreamed that he died; he went straight to the spirit world; and knocked at the gate of the New Jerusalem, and it was opened unto him. The books were opened; he was asked: "Did you ever belong to any secret society?" to which he replied, "I did , to the Grangers." "Then, sir, you cannot be admitted; depart." He then went to the door of the bottomless pit, where the same questions were asked him by the Devil, and again he was told to depart. After he had gone a little way off he was accosted by the homely ruler of the pit, when the following propositions were made: "Stranger," said Nick, "I will not admit you here; they don't want you in heaven; but I will sell you two hundred barrels of brimstone for cash, ten per cent off, with no agents or middlemen, and you can set up a little hell of your own." Of course he did'nt.