Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-04-16
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PHILOSOPHY AND INDEfEN DsNCE
"You can't IN AXE me believe that folks
wks have their five thousand dollars a
year, ant any happier than | am" said
farmer Jones to bis neighbor Bond -
swell laen shan't try" SAID neighbor
Bond, very quietly knocking the ashes
out of his pipe, and wiping his moutr
for drouth of cider; N Guy man like 5
10 think Providence has dealt over hard
with bin, be cray have the comfort of
IL for oil men "IneEs is no getting
round you, neighbor Hond," SAID Far
nIar Jones, "but tell you now, honest
", shouldn't you be willing TO lseve OF
working aud take ifty thousand dollars
IL it were offered your" "Very like
nigh for as aun, Betty says, there
is u great deal Of human nature in nan
bur hope the temptation Won't come
in my way tor | shouldn't be as happy
O man as | am now You Wouldn't
be Obliged to work then, neigbbor -
mo, and if was not obliged to werk
sbouldn'. work; and then | am sure
souldn't be cootented. | have had a bit
of experience this way, Ms. Jones;
though never was over end abeye
Rich I'll tell you experience. Dick
Brown and you know rich Dick
Brown were boys together--a couple
OF as poor and as merry fellows as ever
capered to Yankee Doodle" Dick
and never bad but one fight, though
we were always together. and that, aunt
Betty has often told me, was all owing
TO the sinful uplifting Of my nature. 4
sick gentleman came TO our house on
horseback, and father told one of US
boys Ia go to the tavern and buy some
GIN for h,m. The tavern was th ee quar-.
teYs OF mile off, the road lay through
q pokerish bit OF wood, and il was be
ginning 10 be dark NV brother Jim
had had a parcel OF "raw head end bloc
dy bone" stories told him, and he didn't
altog ether like the notion of going You
must know, ne,ghbor Jones. that, man
and boy, have always been over and
above willing to be brave by proxy, as
they call it 50 says 10 jim, locking
as fierce as a bullet al the time. now
jim, ant you ashamed OF yourself to be
scaredi had jus, as lief 60 through
that ERE wood, as to 60 to bed My
father laughed, and looked sort Of mis-
chievous, | thought. Well, well, sup
pose you 60 them said he He might
just as well have shot me dead as to have
said them words But think. | to my
self, jim ill crow. and Dick i'll laugh.
so | may as well stand TO my word Il
was but ooy's motive, neighbor Jones;
but il you will show me a man who was
never governed by just such a notive,
in the way of politics, business, and such
like, will tell you that man is one in
FIVE hundred. Well, off scampered
barefoot, over the hard, frosty ground,
seeing witch on every black stump.
and ghost 10 every BUSH bought NY
gin and was back t" fathers as quick as
patent shuttle | guess tie gentle.
man knew how the case stood. for ha
took out fourpence and gave il to me
with a smile My quarrel with, Dick
BFowa was about this fourpence. ltell
you money always has its evils. The
HFSt moDey ever Sot made me lnS0.
lent. lshowed Dick 10Y fourpence and
called him a poor ragamuffin. Dick
knocked me down. and we didn't speak
for fortnight We made up after
wards, and Dick often went with me to
look at the silver bit had locked up in
my little box. Dick and went to prem
tice afterwards 10 shopkeeper and
] to a blacksmith. We both got up in
the world, and began to look upon a
fourpenny bit as very small concern.
Dick turned out the most prosperous Of
the two. He's got his country seat and
his carriage, and has sent ten boys to
college; but I'd bet beaver hat he'd be
glad to 20 back to the time when be
knocked me down about the four pence
He has got into dreadful uneasy way
thinks that be has got thousand
complaints that never come near him,
and that his sons are going to bring him
to the aims house. He has some reason