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The ULideri-igned executors of Robert Tliomp
pon, deoeased. late of Clinton town ship. lJutler
Co., Pa., oiler for sale the following described
property, located in said Clinton
One hundred acres of liind. partly cleared,
bonnded cm the aoujb by iaoils of 4otin Ulaegow,
on tjie east l>y lari'ls of James heiru,
on the north by land of is in .Thompson and on
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ALSO—Farm of Wm Thompson, ad joining
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hat-nig on it a goodJbricTs house, goodne'jr frame
bank -barn and outbuildings, good orchard, it
being part of same farm.
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PAGE CAIU>ET SWEEPEK CO.
BUTLER. PA.. WEDNESDAY, Jl NE 15.1881
[From Scrihner's Monthly.]
i MR. NEELUS PEELER'S CON
DITIONS.
"And those that are fools t let them use their
talents." — Twelfth A ig/it.
CHAPTER 11.
In spite of Mr. Peeler's entire neg
lect of ail sublunary pursuits for his
public work, both stated and missioua
ary, his professional reputation kept ou
the wane. The country communities
of those times were not very exacting,
provided their preachers insisted upon
being sure in their own uiinds of hav
ing been called, and provided that they
led moderately pious lives, and kept
good, sound doctrine. Mr. Peelnr
could not but be aware of some declen
sion in his influence. llis afflicted con
ditions had been worn and worn, until
t}iey seenjed as if they were going to
be threadbare, and that at no distant
date. The main complaint was that,
no matter what was the text, he preach
ed the same—or pretty much the same
at all times and places.
'l'm nobody but a female, and I ac
knowledge it,' said Mrs. Peacock one
day, when her husband and another of
the deacons were diijcussing at dinner
Mr Peeler's merits. She had been one
of the last to give up. 'And I've al
ways looked upon Brother Peeler as a
acceptable minister of the gospel—that
ip, congiderin' his phanees. But some
how Brother Peeler, he preach better
at first than he preach at the present
time, and he don't come out enough on
doctrjng lately.'
'Ah !' answered Brother Bullard,
'Sister Peacock, you hit the nail when
you said that word; you hit the nail
right spang on the head, jest as if you
had 'a ! had a hammer. A few more of
them greens, Sister Peacock.'
Sister Peacock helped to the greens
and wanted to fill Brother Bullard's
plate with contributions from every
dish at her end of the table.
'No, no ; plenty—plenty,' he remon
strated, just before it was beginningto
run over; 'plenty—plenty. But you
jest as well 'a' h ai l a hammer when
you said that word.'
'Brother Peeler is very good in a
funil sermon,' acknowledged Mrs. Pea
cock-
' That he is! Jabez Marshall, nor
neither can Silas Mercer, beat him very
fur thar.'
'And then he's very able in pra'rj'
'Powerful!' said Mi"- Bullard.
'But yit, Brother Bullard, we must
have—we do want—we can't get along
all the time without some doctring, if
it's only of a Saturday meetin' like, or
of a Conference day, with a little final
pesse vera nee, and not a bit of faliin"
from grace, and Well, you know
Brother Bullard, I never was nothin'
but a female, and I was always \\ illin'
to acknowledge '
But Brother Bullard made Sister
Peacock hush up right there, under ;
rating herself in that kind of style.
They sll agreed, even away down
there, hard on the Ohoopees, that there
were no limits to human griefs and
sympathies; and that even the sadde.-t
and most sympathetic of mankind liked
—occasionally, at least—to be pointed
to a more hopeful prospect, both of this
present mortal, and the future eternal
life. Atid then, some doctriDg was
actually needed sometimes. Sister
Peacock might be a female; but she
stoutly denied being a babe, to be fed
on milk. The other sisters, following
the lead of the great pillar of Harmony
Church, took up this idea, and said
they wanted something hard and solid,
too ; and the way they taljiet} ahout
Brother Peeler would have led one to
suppose that Brother Peeler regarded
all the women, in all the borders of
Buffalo, Williamson's Swamp, and both
Ohoopees, whatever their ages, as so
many infants. The fact was, Mr. Peel
er had to make a new strike. Sam
Wiggins had improved everv way un
der the sweet influences of his sister,
Mr. Peeler ought to be more cheerful.
Although the last to see, he did see at
last that, eveu if in humility, he must
go himself, and lead his flocks to feed,
in more pleasing pastures.
One day he returned from an uncom
monly extended 'tower' and looked
cheerful. Old Sam suspected that he
had made a fee of five dollars for mar
rying some couple ; but Sam was mis
taken. 'Lijay, and only 'Lijay, knew
the cause. Oh, how he had praised
'Lijay and bragged about, and was so
thankful for bti and 'Lijay were
doing for the regulation of poor Sam
my Wiggins!
"Lijay,' he said, 'I believe I've jest
found out the real true idee of preach
in'. It's to take a big tex' and then
charge. I done that on Little Hoopee
last Sunday week. I took a big tex'
and I charged; and I tell you, my son,
everything flewed before me like
when Len Peek Is a.rfter Vra on BudU
gill's mill-pond. Xam goin' to fetch up
that sermon here the first chance I git,
and then, you listen.'
Shortly afterward, when the pastor
of Elim Church, not far distant, was
somewhat ill, Mr. Peeler hinted a wil
lingness to occupy his pulpit one Sun
day morning. It was the best ttyit
| coulcj be soop l^e circumstances.
Here was a large congregation. It was
remarked that Mr. Peeler gave out a
more cheerful hymn, and spoke a more
hopeful prayer than usual, tie took
for his subject the triumphaut entry of
our Lord into Jerusalem. He apolo
gizen for taking so vast a subject for
his text; but on a as this,
veersea pught to be no object. I could
not dwell (without the appearance of
levity) as he did. upon the wildness of
colts in general, and mule-colts in par
ticular 5 on the temerity of an unprac
tieed rider undertaking to travel on
one of the latter for the first time (in
all human probability without any Sad
dle, and a mere rope for a bridle) into
a great city, and among vast noisy
multitudes." The climax was in ascrib
ing :o these multitudes the motives for
their concourse and their clamors, and
their strewing branches in the way.
By the time that he got up to this part
of bis subject, his passion, which had
been working from the beginning,
seemed to have gotten beyond all
bounds, and he screamed as he de
nounced that onbelievin' and Gallio
like people. And then his audience
was stupefied with amazement as he
declared and labored to prove that the \
intention of these clamoring crowds
was to 'skeer' that colt—that young
1 colt—that young mule-colt that
young onbroke mule-colt—and drive
him to do things that were too awful I
to contemplate.
At this cap of the climax, Mr. Peel
er, overcome l>y his feelings, sank down
in the rear of the pulpit. The congre
gation was at a loss what to think.
The young men smiled, and locked
across at the young girls ; the young
girls smiled in turn and looked at their
mothers ; the answering mothers puck
ered their faces and looked at the old
men, and the old men frowned upon
one another with terrible solemnity for
a moment, and then looked interroga
tively up to the pulpit. But the pastor
apparently had been growing worse
and worse for the last three-rjuarters of
ian hour, and sank deeper arid deeper,
until he was no longer to be seen. Af
i ter several moments' silence, he rose
feebly, complained of being extremely
ill, gave out a hymn, prayed a dejected
prayer, and dismissed the congregation.
CHAPTER 111.
It was very soon ascertained that
the pastor's view 9 on the late question
in theological science were not at all in
accord with Mr. Peeler's, and so Nee
lus had to take his mule across
the tijhwopees. where he had been foal
ed. But how he did grow to dislike
Sam Wiggins! Sam Wiggins did it
all; and once more he returned, in his
cjjspoqrses tmd aud conversa
tion oy:er chicseil arid biscuit, to his af
flicted conditions. A little freshened
by temporary rest from work upon one
long-continqed liae, and resolving, if
possible, to recover the ground he bad
lost, he strove to dig down to the very
roots of human sympathy, drag it forth
and press its last tpar..
Meanwhile, Sam quietly pursued his
humble way, workiug every week-day
all day long for Mr. Peeler and his
family, and when the night came, sit
ting by his sister, watching her
ting, rolling her balls of yarn, reeling
her hanks of cotton and wool, and oc
casionally alluding fondly to the two
old people now lying iu the garden.
When bed-time eanie, he lit his candle,
went to his bedroom, and slept tho
sleep of the upright, the industrious,
and the weary. As he Vised \o say to j
several fripuds, but always in the strict
est confidence, the old feliow had grown
a little tired of Neelus Peeler's ever
lasting preachin' and pravin' and talk
in' about him, and he was sorely con
cerned sometimes to know what ho
ouj;ht to do, Hut for his affection for
his sister, he sometimes felt that he
would like to give Mr. Peeler a good
shaking and then go away and leave
the place forever. Between this affec
tion on the one hand and his growing ]
reseutment on tbs other, his simple, ,
guileless heart had many a conflict Iu
the impossibility of real, his mind in
dulged itself iu imaginary aveugement,
Curiously enough, his rumiuations on
one occasion took the direction of art.
The hawk had been unusually trouble
some of late to the barnyard. Sam,
having no time to hunt so cunning a !
thief, determined to make a scare-crow, ,
intended to represent a man with a gun ,
In his hand making ready to lire. Al- (
though with quite limited knowledge ,
of the principles of £\rt, it occurred to
him to make this figure resemble Mr. ,
Peeler. With some old, worn-out
clothes, aud other necessary things, he
made his man, set him up, and oontem- I,
plated him.
'Qood! I had no idea I could do it j
so well You are ugly enough, Nee- j
lus.'
Yet, in fixing the attitude of tbe j
arms, he had some difficulty. After ,
several efforts her sat down and pon
dered
'lt's no use; it wouldn't fool a jay
bird or a joree, let alone a hawk. ,
They'd know you well enough, but .
they wouldn't know the gun.'
Risiug again, and essaying to adjust '
the arms to the intentions of the hun
ter, a new idea seized him suddenly.
'That's it, that's it! Instid of mak
ing you a-shootin' at 'em. Ef I can
git that idee in 'em, they leaves these
partß certain and sure.'
Suiting his actions to his words, he
took away the gun and stretched out
the arms.
'I wonder I didu't think of it before.
AU you want now, Neelus, is a ivoice,'
This unbloody revenge went far to
satisfy his sense of injustice. He grew
to think this likeness quite striking,
and every time he passed within view
of it, smiled with satisfaction. Many j
a talk he had with this preacher.
'How's your conditions this morn- i
ing, Mr. Peeler? Pretty good? Ah! !
Jest passable eh ? I think you mout !
be satisfied with 'em, —the rest of us a \
workin' and you a-roamin' and a roar
in' 'round genilly.'
Sometimes he would seriously re
monstrate with him for his ingratitude,
his non-appreciation of his wife, his
neglect of his son ; but he would soon
lapse into a pleasant vein, and, regard- i
ing him with pleased attention, seem
to lose all resentment to the man in the
satisfaction with his own hitherto un
known and unsu-pected genius These
colloquies were usually concluded with
the ejaculatory refrain : 'All you wants
is a woice. What would you be if you
only bad a WOICE !'
The only uneasiness he ft?lt was from
an occasional apprehension that his sis
ter might happen to notice it some
time, and, being struck by the lac-sim
ile of her husband, have her feelings
hurt But she seldom went out of tbe
yard in that direction. However to
make sure, in order to avoid detection,
he placed the figure in the plowed
ground beyond the fence, artfully avert
ed his face from the lot, and, as it were,
disposed hie audience down toward
the meadow.
About this time the regular battalion
muster came on. This was the grand
i occasion of the year, not even except
| ing tbe Fourth of July. Men that
never got drunk during the whole year
j sometimes had to give out on this day,
! and nothing, or next to nothing was
said about it. The drum and fife were
j too inspiriting, the memories of the
brave deeds of their fathers too fresh
and exulting, to allow even tempar
i ance society people to keep entirely
sober. By night. after such a day. the
battalion, taken as a body, believed
itself competent to manage the choicest
red-coat brigade that might be muster
ed.
Sam Wiggins, in obedience to the
orders of the captain of his militia dis
trict, had to atteud. 'Lijay suggested
to his father that he ('Lijav) ought to
go along with his uncle Sammy, aud
try to keep him sober. He had very
nearly made an entirely sober man out
of him, anyhow 5 but to-morrow would
be a great strain. The idea struck Mr.
Peeler as wise and opportune. Sam
smiled, but said nothing at the break
fast-table, and his sister looked sur
prised, but also said nothing, when
Mr. Peeler told 'Lijay he might have
.Jim, the mule, to ride to the muster.
During the greater part of that day,
Mr. peeler sat in his piazza and rumi
nated He hardly knew what he
thought. Sam had been temperate so
long that Mr. Peeler now had inade
quate cause of crying, even with his
jaw*; If old fellow should happen
to make a big spree of it to-day, a little
fuel would be added to the flame of
his pathos, which he confessed had
been burning low of late. He hardly
knew how he felt. Toward evening,
his wife brought out her sewing antf
sat also in the piaa«a, silenf and
thoughtful. At length Mr. Peeler
spoke.
'lt appears like Sammy is sorter late
in comin' from the muster, 1
'Yes/ answered bis wife, 'it's time
they were home.'
'They ?' ejaculated Mr. Peeler.
'They? 'Lijay would have been home
long ago, if it hadn't been for your
brother. It's him that's been a-keepin'
'Lijay back, you may be sure o' that,
Pity—pity—pit-tee,' continued he,
lengthening his words as if he would
reduce to measure and sing his commis
eration—'pity that a minister of the
gospel, the blessed gospel, should have
to have bis mind all tore up by sich a
case, and to haye his own sou a-foller
ifl' uf his own uncle, and to take keer
of him. aud to watch him, and to fetch
him home from a wicked muster ot a
wicked battalion in a wicked town; and
—ahem!—a man's own wife not seeiu
in' to keer for such things, and her own
brother at that, and a drawback, as it
Were, and a backhold, and a '
'Mr. Peeler, what is all such talk
about, and what is it worth? You
know I do care for such things (or
ought to know it) as much as you do ;
but not like you do. I care for them
for Sammy's sake ; for he is the best
mau iu this world, in spite of tnat one
fault, which he is very seldom gui'ty
of, and which, somehow, you make ten
yes, a thousand—times worse than it
is. You talk about his being a draw
back. Why, if he was to go away
from here, as I know he feels like do
ing sometimes, he would be missed—
I can tell you that'
'Oh. Betsy, 1 shouldn't wish, that is,
I shouldn't de.-ires that Sammy should
go away and depart from us, and, as it
were '
'No; I think not. But I can tell
you farther, that if you did let 'Lijay
go to the muster for the reason you
say you did, and if Sammy finds out
that that was the reason, and if such
as that is 'oo be kept going much lon
ger, Sammy, will leave; and there
won't be any power on this earth that
can stop him. Mr. Peeler, I wonder
you did t hat. I'm sorry you did that.'
Mr. Peeler, with all bis powers,
stood in some awe of both his wife and
Sam.
'Why, Betsy, my dear, I—l—l
thought that was the very best thing,
—leastways, it was my desires '
'The best thing!' she replied, con
temptuously, but quietly, and, as al
ways, without anger; 'the best thing
with an honest man to send a boy, and
a boj like 'Lijay, after him to watch
him? —his own sister's child ; and
one too that, here I tell his father, has
been watching hounding his uncle
too long already,«nd is not a fit person
to be put to reform his uncle, or any
one else that I happen to know. 'Lijay
had better staid at home.'
'Well,' said Mr. Peeler apologetical
ly for bis wife's weakness of judgment.
'Sieh is the female mind, and sich it
will a-most always stick to its own
brothers, no matter how Gallio-like—
and even against their own chil'.—But
yonder they come—and—-yes—-jes as I
expected.'
There they did come slowly up the
lane, tbe horse and tbe mule ; but only
the latter's rider was erect. Sam's
horse was apparently bringing a heavy
load.
'Now, aint that a sight for a minis
ter of the gospel to have to see a-com
iu' to his gate—and the poor bewilder
in' creeter not bein' able to set up, nor
hold his head up, but has to lay down
on the dumb animal's neck, and 'Lijay,
be havin' to hold on to his leg. I
leaves the sight.' And Mr. Peeler
withdrew into the back-yard.
Mrs. Peeler put down her sewing
and looked anxiously and painfully at
the comers as they slowly approached.
Never before had Sammy conic home,
or been known to be, in such ill con
dition. She rose to her feet, and look
ed more and more eagerly as they
neared the irate. Just as they reach
ed it, she uttered a cry and ran to
them. The burden was takeu from the
horse, carried somehow to the house,
and laid upon the floor iu the piazza.
Mrs. Peeler went to the back-door and
called her husband.
'Have the poor creeter been put
away, Betsy?'
'I tell you to come in. You are
wanted here right away.'
'Well, my skeerts is cle'r,' and slow
ly entering, he walked through the
house on toward the piazza. No soon
er did he get there, than he fell back
waad into a chair. There stood Sam
Wiggins, leaning agaiust a post, wip
ing with his handkerchief the sweat
from his face, while prostrate, with rol
ling eyes and grinning mouth lay—
'Lijay ! Tte boy, seeing his father,
muttered seme words about 'having
fotch—ole fel—safe ; but mons-trouble,'
and then gave a loud, dismal cheer for
Gen'l Wash'n.'
Mr. Peeler winked his eyes repeated
ly while lookinir alternately up at Sam
and down at 'Lijay, as if he must be
mistaken as to their relative situations.
NO. 80
He then looke'l at his wife, who stood
still, silent, pale as the dead.'
I don't,' he began, at length; 'I
dou't, that is,' —ruobing h<s eyes vio
lently, and winkin' more and more;
'aint they—aint they some misunder
staudin'—or some mis—ta—take—or
some niis '
'You see for yourself,'said Sam ; 'or,
could see, if you would open your oyes
and quit winkin' 'em so much, and
would look down thar on the floor.
You see it aint ME.'
'1 never should a bl—b'lieved it.'
'You shouldn't. Well, I always
knowed it was a-comin'; only it didu't
come quite as soon as 1 spected ; but
it's come soon enough.'
He lifted the boy, carried him into
his chamber add laid him on the bed.
'Lijav was inclined to remonstrate,
still desiring to continue faithful to his
trust, and look aftor his poor old uncle
Sammy. Being repeatedly assured
that Uncle Sammy was all right, at
last he became reconciled, and immedi
ately dropped to sleep, llis lather
looked on utterly bewildered. He
curiously contemplated 'Lijay, seem
ing to regard him as something that
was dead, and to be trying to recall to
himself whether or not he had ever
known it while it was alive. He fol
lowed Sam back to the piazza, as if he
had been charmed. Sam paid no at
tention to Uim ; but, taking his hat, he
walked past the stable, climbed the
fence, arrived at the stump on which
til* imaginary Mr. Peeler, now much
worn and wilted by long service in
wind and weather, yet. held out his
arms and poured fourth upou his con«
ditions to a sorrowful and sin-stricken
world.
'And now, sir, before I go from you
for good, I'm goin' to do the best I can
for you, and give you some conditions,
as you call 'em, that will do to talk
about when I'm gone. It's the best I
cau do, situated as I am, and situated
as you are, and situated—well never
mind about the balance.'
He seized him by the throat, wrench
ed him from his elevated position posi
tion, and, striding along, the feet of
the wretched man dragging beneath
that powerful grasp, his arms vet ex
tended, as if yet appealing for sympathy
and snccor, the avenger pressed ruth
lessly on iuto the remotest depths of a
small pine thicket that had grown up
around a bend of the spring-branch.
It was never definitely known what
became of the victim ; but from frag
ments of felt, feathers, cotton, shoe
leather, and other articles of human
apparel, afterward seen upon the marg
in of the s'rearu, it was suspected that
he had been drowned
CHAPTER IV.
Sam walked slowly back, lingering
a minute or so at the spring, at the
?ow-pen gap, at the stable, at the crib,
at the yard gate (where he exchanged
he saddles of the uorse and mule), and
even at the bottom ot piazza-steps.
Mr. Peeler and his wife were sitting
there, and both watched him closely as
he dragged his feet heavily. Without
daring to look at bis sister, he turned
to Mr. Peeler and, standing, said :
'And now. Neelus Peeler, it's about
time vou and me had some understand
in'.'
'A understandin'—Sammy, a—un
der—standin' ?' Mr. Peeler's eyes
snapped, and he looked as if he had
been under the impression that the
most satisfactory understanding had
been arrived at between hiin and his
brother-in-law long ago.
'Yes, sir,' answered Sam, making
his attitudes so as, if possible, to have
his sister in the rear while he had Mr.
Peeler in front.
'Yes, sir, a understanding. I've
stood your preachin' about me (if you
tnout call it preachin'), and I've stood
your talkin' about me, and what's more,
I've stood your doggin' me about with
'Lrjay about as long as anybody could
be expected to stand 'em. But now,
Neelus, we got to part. It's mighty
easy to make a settlement. I want
nothin' but Bob, and my saddle and
bridle, and thar they stand hitched at
the gate. Betsy may have the rest.'
He turned and looked toward his
sister.
It's sorter hard to part from her,
and '
Before he could utter another word,
she gave a piercing scream and fell
upon his neck.
'No, no, no!' she cried. 'And what
will become of me without the only
one in this wjrld who loves and cares
anything forme?'
And then she let bim go, and stood
with her left baud resting upon his
shoulder, liaising her right hand ex
tending it toward her husband, she
said :
'Neelus Peeler!'
Mr. Peeler could not sit in that chair;
so he got up and backed against the
wall.
'Yes, sir, stand up. Eighteen years
ago 3 r ou stood in that room and promis
ed to love, and honor, and protect the
g:ri that stood by your side And
while you were making these promises,
this man here was standing in bis
mother's room, because he couldn't
bear to hear the words spoke that were
to part him from his sister. I'm not
going to reproach you for anything
you've done to me, nor for anytbiug
you've neglected to do for me and the
poor boy that lies in there on the bed.
But this man here, who has been for
over thirty years working and toiiing
for father and mother and me and has
got nothing for it except his food and
his clothes, —do you think I'm going
to sutler you to drive him away from
this place, and keep me here after he is
goue? I call heaven to witness, Mr.
Peeler, that if either my brother or I
must leave this place, it shall be me.
The day he leaves, I leave too; —but
not to go along with him, and be a
bidden to him any longer. There's
been enough of that, Ood knows. But
when he takes his direction, I will
take the other, and work my way, or
: beg my way from house to house.'
Her long hair became disengaged
from its comb, aud fell streaming over
her neck, and face, and shoulders. She
pushed it back from her eyes, and then
again threw her arms around her broth
er's neck. Mr. Peeler tried to speak.
but, for tbo first time in bis life, the'
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words stuck in his throat. He scraped
himself slowly against the wall until
he reached the door, then backed into
the hou.-e, and got out of sight.
Poor old Sam ! He feebiy strove to
get loose from his sister; but all his
great strength seemed to have departed
| from him. He reached out toward the
post, got hold of it at last, laid his
head against it, slowly sank down upon
j the bench beside it, aud wept aloud.
| He had not had the slightest idea of
giving up in this way ; but the arm of
I that sister around him pressed upon
his great, big. old heart, and he could
not see clearly how they were to part.
There they sat a long, long time. Day
went dowu, and the moon arose, and
yet there they sat. Sam tried to argue.
He had thought that he had a good
case; but she headed him at every
corner, and it appeared more and more
that instead of a good case he had no
case at all.
Oh no, no,'she said softly. 'No, no.
Here was where you and I played to
gether. You've been here ever since I
went away. Perhaps I may not have
done as well as some others; but God
knows what is best. And now I am
back again in the same old home: no
longer a child, and more than ever I
have needed before, the love and '
'But Be-be-bets—' Sam began.
'No, no,' said his sister getly, put
ting her band upon his lips. 'No, no,
I am better off than you think, in spite
of some few troubles which I am thank
ful are no worse. You can't put your
self in my place, my dear old Sammy.
lam happier than you kuow of. And
I am going to be happier than I have
ever been in my married life. I am
sure of it. Come with me.'
They rose and she led him into the
garden, down behind the rose-trees,
under the cedars, and they sat down
upon the iude bence. They were not
persons tor much sentiment, these two,
brother and sister, even as they sat at
midnight by the graves of their parents;
yet they came away shortly afterward,
if not with fonder mutual affection,
with more cheerful hopes for all the
good to which they humbly aspired.
From that night things grew better
and better. Mr. Neelus Peeler retired
from public life ; not abruptly, nor, as it
was believed, from any detinite prede
terminate resolution. It seemed rath
er as if the work that had been alloted
to him in the vineyard was finished
sooner than had b»*en expected. His
forte haviug been mainly, if not entire
ly, in the pathetic, and it now being
universally recognized that, in his do
mestic relations, he had everything to
be thankful for, except in the matter of
bis own son (and he not so old as to
be incapable of amendment), M. Peeler
necessarily subsided into private life.
About a year afterward, a girl baby
was born. Mrs. Peeler said that Sam
my should name it. To this propo
sition bet husband made no objection ;
for now in Mr. Peeler's eyes Sam Wig
gins had become, not only respectable,
but great. Sam answered that if they
left it to him, they ought to know that
he should name the child Nuncv. And
then his sister, as she lay upon her
bed, lifted her arms, put them around
his oeck, pulled him down, and hugged
him until the old fellow was ashamed
of himself. For Nancy was the name
of their mother.
'Lijay, now having different guides,
made some improvement. Before he
was fully grown, Sam succeeded in
what he frequently (but always confi
dentially) declared was his best hope
for 'Lijay, namely, in marrying him off;
or rather, as he was no match-maker,
nor match-breaker, he let 'Lijay marry
himself off; and notwithstanding the
frequency with which such a thing oc
curs, everybody wondered at the luck
that 'Lijay had
For the rest of his life, Mr. Peeler
submitted with a melancholy resigna
tion to be supported by his brother-in
law and wife. Of course he could not
feel as if he ought to be entirely idle.
Sam kept him in powder and shot, in
fish-books and lines; and it was some
what touching, once in a while, to ob
serve the meek satisfaction with which
he would contemplate a broiled squir
rel or a pan of horny-heads, that
through his labors had been brought
to the breakfast-table.
CHAPTER V.
AND oh, bow little Nancy did grow
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No wonder he is careless when he
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It is sad to know how few people
recognize the alterations made by the
New Testament revisers.
The Oil Ci f y Derrick was the first
in the field with its spring poem. It
runs thuswise : 'There came to our cab
in one morning in spring, a sweet little
robin—he came there to sing, but the
cat was attentive, and watched from
afar, till the robin all heedless was
killed like a Czar.
[Gouverneur, (N. Y.) Herald.]
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Biddy,' said a ladv to her servant,
'I wish you would step over and see
how old Mrs. Jones is this morning.'
In a few minutes Biddv returned with
the information that Mrs. Jones was
seventy-two years, seven months, and
twenty-eight days old.
That dog of yours flew at me this
morning and bit me on the leg, and
now I notify you that I intend to
shoot it the first time I see it.' 'The
dog is not mad ' Mad! I know he is
not mad. What's he got to be mad
about ? It's me that's mad.'
A minister overtook a Quaker lady,
and politely assisted her in opening a
gate. As she was a comparative
stranger in town, he said : 'You don't
know, perhaps, that I am Mr.
Haven't you heard me preach V 'I
have heard thee try,' was the quick
rejoinder.