Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-12-07
Z q q L. r. 8 =
ny SAM SLICY.

"Our nearest ncighbor was Squire Peleg
Sandford well, the old Squire, and all his ia
mily was all of them the most awful passlnate
folks that ever lived, when they chose, and then
they could keep their temper and be as cool as
cucumbers. One night, old Peleg, as he was
called, told his son Gucom, boy of fourteen
years old, to 90 and bring in backlog, for the
Are. backlog, you know, Squire, in a wood
fire, is always the biggest stick you can find or
carry. 1t takes stout junk ofa boy to litt one.
"Well as soon as Gucom goes to fetch the
log, the old Squire drugs forward the Goals, and
fixes the fire so as to leave bed for it, and
stand by ready to lift il into its place. Present.
| " in comes Gucom with little cat stick, no
| bigger than his leg, and throws it on. Uncle
! Peleg got so mad, he never said word, but
| Just seized his rdn whip, and gave him a most
an awful 'whippn.' lie tanned his hide proper
ly for him you may depend. Now, 60, sir, and
bring in proper backlog
"Gocum was clear grit as well as the old man,
for he was chip of the old block, and no mis-
take 50 out he goes without so much as sayin'
u NUu, bl't IISAChH w So'i w 'ilb "'ON f''Nb HO
walks off altogether, and staid away eight
years. TIL he was one -and.twcnty, and his own
master.--Well, as soon as he was man grown,
and lawfully on his own hook, he took it into
his head one day he'd 90 home and see his old
father and mother agin, and show them he was
alive and kickin', for they didn't know whether
he was dead or not, never havin' heard of or
from him one blessed word all that time. When
he arrived at the old house, daylight was down
and the lights lit, and as he passed the keepin'
room wnder, he looked in, and there was old
Squire sttin' in the same chair he was eight
years afore, when he ordered the backlog, and
gave him such an onmerciful whlppn' Sc
what does Gocum do, but stops at the wood pile
and picks up a most hagaceous log, Qor he
crowd to be a most thundern' BIG tcller tEen,)
and openin' the door he marches in and lays it
> down on the hearth. and then lookin up sais he
"'Fnther, I've brought you in that back.
: log
"Uncle Peeg struck up all Of heap
he couldn't eeve his eyes, that that great six.
footer was the boy he had cow-hided, and he
him father man from the grave wouldn't
have surprised him re,-ontak III zed, and be.
dumbed for minute. But he came too right
of, and was iced down to treezln' point in no
time.
"What did you say 7 sais he.
"'rhat have brought you in that backlog,
0 SIR you sent the out for
"Well then, you've been a laundering long
time tetchir' It., sais he that's all con say,
: Draw the Goals forward, put II on and then 90
to bed
: "Now, that's fact, Squire f, know the par.
ties myselG,-and that's what do cal cooinC SIS
| and no mistikc !"
At Wiscassct, Ee0:cr Master has been mar
= ried 10 Miss EPea Trade fthe old provcrb
n holds good, that he who is master of a trade IL
e the owner OF an estate, Eeazcr has married a
fortune.
;. There is a dandy in ST, Louis, who has "a
u, much brass that company At en;crprslng el'
tlzens talk of buylng him mp and commencing /.
v manufactory Of COW bells. At least e. says al
G exchange rsPtr