The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1839-07-11

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that. though | spake this way. regard
you truly; and il did not Id not take
the trouble 10 tell ynu my mind" /
Like Mick Brady's vile. who. xhen-
ever she lhrashsd him. cried oser The
blows. and said they we're al Tor his
good" obssrsed her brnlher slyly.
(" N0hsense!-llslen 20 me. say, and
I'll tell you Why am so resolaIs. lis
many long day since. going 10 school. |
! used 70 mreI--alichael minds her too.
I'm snre-an old brn. woman; shey used
10 call her the WITCH Of BalIsghiun. Sta
ey Was very old eniirely. wI,hered and
white headed. bent NEARLY double with
age, and she used 10 he ever muddllng
about the streams and bitches. gathering
herbs and plants. the girls said 10 work
charms with: and at first they used 10
watch, rather far Of, and IL they thought
they had good chance Of escaping her
tongue and The stones she fung al them.
they'd call her an III name or two. and
sometimes. old a. she was. she'd make
spring al them sideways like crab, and
howl. and boot. and scream. and then
they'd be of like flock Of pigeons from
. hawk, and she'd 60 on disturbing The
green-coaled ~slers with her crooked
stick. and mullering words which none,
IL they heard, could understand. Stacy
had been weIl-reared woman. and knew
dale more Than any Of "; when not
iormenled by The children. she was nigh
iy we'll spoken. and The gentry though, .
, dale about her more than she did about
. them; Tor she'd say there wasn't one in
. the country fs to tie her shoe. and tell
them 80. 100, il they'd call her any Thing
but Lady Stacy, which the rate gentry o
. the place all humoured her in; bu. lht
upstairs, who think every civil word Il
an inferior is pulling down Of their owl
/, dignity, would turn up their noses 81
they passed her. and may be she dldn'
9 bless them fur il. One day Nike hss
gone home before me. and, Gaming dowI
n The back bohreen. who should | SCI
!. noyiac along il but Lady Stacy; and OF
she came muliering and mumbIing 10 her
self liII she 60, near me. aud as she did
| heard Master Nixon's [the dog man
hound in full cry, and SEGA him ., he
!, heels. and he over the hedge encoursa
A ing the basic to tear her in pieces. Til
i dog was soon up with her, aud then oh
a kept him OF as we'll as she could vii
her crn,ch. cursing the entire time. and
" was very frightened, but darted 10 HI
\. side. and. with waffle | pulled gu. I
E, the hedge, did my best to keep him o
q. her. Master Nixon cursed me with a
. his heart, but wasn't 10 be turned O
n. tina, way. Stacy, herself. laid about h
:. with her staff, but the ugly brute woul
IN have finished her, only for me. don
M suppose Nixon meant that, but the do
a was savage. and some men, like him. d
10 lish, in cruelty. Wen, beat the ID
hi of; and then had to help the poor fair
ing woman. for she was both faint al
>, hurt. | didn't much like bringing b
- n here. for the people said she wasn't lu
~ Ky; however, she wanted help. and | ga
." il. When got her on The floor.
thought drop Of whiskey would resi
y her, and. accordingly. offered hers gla'
gu shall never forget The venom with viii
~ she dashed il on The ground. Do y
want 10 poison me-" she shouted, a.
ios .her saving my life!" When she cal
re; 10 herself little, she made me sis dos
&C. by her side, aud fixing her large gr
1st eyes upon my face, she kept rocking l
aid body backwards and forwards, while s
ne. spoke, as we'll as can remember-wl
IS IN Try 10 tell you-bu, ! can't tell il
Us she dld-tha, wouldn't be in nstu
nil i" Ellen" she said. and her eyes fixed
my face, II wssn't always a poor 10
not creature, that every ruflian who wal
gill the country dare set his cur at. Thu
am was full and plenty in my fathers hol
Ore when was young. but before grew
ny womsnly estate, its walls were bare
~ rooiiess. VIVA. made them so!-drll
.ak whiskey! My father was in debt; 10
ua- thought. he tried 10 keep himself so Il
Ing lie could not think; he wanted the CT
,ou rage Of man to look bis danger aud /
lay ficully in the face. and overcome it; I
Ellen. mind my words. the man tina.
ey, look deb. and danger steadily in The Ia
and resolve to overcome them, can do
get He had not means, he said, to educate
ink children as became them; he grew moi
have means 10 find them or their p'
patient mother The proper necessaries
all: life. yet he found the means to keep
,a,h whiskey cask flowing. and TO answer
AK bsihffs' knocks for admission by the |,
inc roar Of drunkenness, mad, as il was wi
ed. They go. in y, last. in spite of
n | The care taken to keep them out. and III
was much lighting. aye. and blood 81
ing bu, no, TO death; and while the riot
Iiie, a foot. and we we're crying round
10 death bed Of dying mother. where
hei they had raised ,en-gallon cash
whiskey on The table in the parlour,
,ys astr,fe nm IA sol NV father, nuurlshIng