The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-09-20

PuoSIUlS CtICu OuSS w N1 NCCO i I'm yC
to witness what hae sufferit frae this bluid
thursty Heelandman It's no to be endured
in Christian country. Tn hae the law of
him that will. I'll be whuppit but I'll hae
amends, although it costs twenty pounds ~
whats the matter 7" quo 7, pretending
ignorance Of hail concern. "What, in the
name of ACKNOWLEDGMENT, has set We thegi-
Their by the lugs?" Then Mr.. Welt began
his tale, how he had been cOllared and weeI
nigh thrappled him in his ain shop then
the ither tauld how in the first place Mr..
Weft's grandfather, as he ca'ed Nosey, had
stolen his note, and how, in the second place.
Mr.. Wet himself had iusulted the great
grand luke of Argyle. In word, there
was desperat kick up between them, the
ane treeping that he would TAX the law of
the ither Immediately. Ma, in this respect
Donald gaed the greatest lengths, for he
swOre that. rather than be defeat, he wad
carry his cause to the House of Lords al
though it cost him thretty pounds sterling,
now saw it was time to put in a word.
" Houts-tOuts, gentlemen" quo |, whats
the use of a. this cIishmaclaver? we've bath
COTTON the wrang sow by the leg, or my
names no William niece. I'll wager We a
penny-piece, that my monkey Nosey is at
lnC UOItOuu III Tic UuSlUeSS
Nae sooner had spoken the word, than
the twa, looking round the shop, spied the
beastie sitting upon the shelf, grining at them
and putting out his tongue, and wiggle-wag-
Cling his walking stick over his left elbow,
as if he had been playing upon the fiddle.
MIR. Welt at this apparition set up loud
LAUGH; his passion left him in moment,
when he saw thesridculous mistake the Hee-
III 50 Al l.
would haze bursted his sides VII evendown
merriment. At first Donald lookit desperate
angry, and, juding frae the way he was twis-
ting about his mouth and rowing his cen,
opened that he intended some deadly
skaith to the monkey. But his guide sense,
of which Hcelandmen are no a'tegther des-
titute, got the better of his anger, and he
roared and LAUGHED like the very mischief,
Nor was this a., for nae sooner had he be-
gan to LAUGH, than the monkey did the same
thing and held its sides in precisely the same
manner, initiating his actions, in the most
amusin' way imaginable. This only set Do
maid LAUGHING mair than ever, and when
he lifted up his nieves, and shook it at No
sey in good humoured way! Odds man, he
took the note frae his pouch, where it lay
rowed mp like dow, and, papping it at
Donald, hit him as fairly on the nose, as if
it had been shot out of weel aimed mus
ket. There was nae RESTING this. The hail
three, or rather the hail four for Nosey join
ed US, set up a loud LAUGH, and the Heeland-
mans was the loudest of a, showing that
he was really man of sense. and could
take joke as weel as his neighbour.
When this lauchin' had a wee subsidized,
Mr.. Campbell, in order to show that he had
nae i'll wull to Mr.. Welt, ax'd his pardon for
the rough way he had treated him, but the
worthy manufacturer wasna bear OF. .sHonts,
man." quo. he, dinna say word about it.
It's mistake altogether, and Soloman him
self he ken, whites gaed wrang." Whereup-
on the Heelandman bought Khmarnock
nightcap, price eleven pence happenny, frae
Mr.. Welt, and paid him part of the very
note that brocht on the ferly hae just been
relating. But his guide will didna end here,
for he insisted on taxin' us a'--Nosey among
the lave-to the nearest public, where he gi
ed US frien'ly glass, and we kept tawking
about monkeys, and what not, in a manner
at ance edifying and amusing to hear.
A MODERN PYTHEGORIAN.