Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-02-16

then, for 1t pleased God to take the two
first in the feaver, and bad, sure enough
was the trouble, for my husband took it, and
there he lay, off and on, for as good as four
months; and then the rint got Behind
hand, and we were forced to sell the COW
one would think the baste had knowledge,
for when she was going off to the fair (and
by the same token it was my brother-in-
laws sisters son that drove her,) she turned
back and mowed-ay, as natural as child
that was quitting the mother. Well we
never could rise the price of COW agin,
and that was sore loss TO us, for God sent
two young ones the next time, and be-
twixt the both could never get minute
to do the blt o. spinning or knitting that the
landlords wife expected as a yearly COM
Pliment. (She was not born lady, and
they're the worst to the poor. Musheroom
gentry! that spring up, and buy land, hand
over head, from the rale sort, that are left,
in the long run, without cross or coin 10
bless themselves with-all owing to their
generosity.) Well J. TO make up for that, |
was forced to give up some of my best
hens, as duty fowl to the lady, on account
that she praised their handsome toppings.
That wasn't all;-the pigs got the mea-
sells, and we might have sould them to ad-
vantage; but my husband says, says he
| 'Mary, we have had disease and death in
our own house, and don't let US be the
names of selling unwholesome mate upon
no account because it brings i'll health,
and we to answer for it, when nothn' will
bn tn 10 fnrn ht1t ho Ia
rogueiSh ones, straight against each other,
and no one to judge them but the Almighty
the ONE who knows the rights of all =
that was true for him. Well; we might
have got up again, for my poor Thomas
worked like any negro TO the full but Just
after we had sowed our little field of wheat,
ut was almost at the corner of the land
lords park, and we depended on it for next
gale day,) nothing would sarve the land
lord but he must take it out of our hands,
widout any notice, TO plant trees upon. l
went to my lady, and to soften her like,
took what was left of my poor fowl-the
cock and alias a present; she accepted
them very genteelly, to be sure, and promi-
sed we should have another field, and COM
pensation money. Well, we waited, but
no sign of it, at last my husband made
bould to 90 to the landlord himself, and
tould him all that had passed between the
lady and me. ''Don't bother me, man,
was the answer he made; compensation
indeed! what compensation am to have
| for being out OF my rent so long-the time
ye were sick, and ye without lase! And
| am certain my wife never promised any
thing of the sort to the woman q ask
yer pardon, Sir,' replied Thomas, civil OF
course; 'but she did, for my Mary tould
me-
"'She tould ye a lye, then,' said the
landlord--and my husband fired up. Sir,
said he, 'it ye were my equal you dar'n't
say the likes o. that of my Mary-lor
though she's not of gentle blood, she's nc
liarn Then the landlord called my hus-
band an impudent blaguard, and Thomas
made answer, that he, being a gentleman,
might call him what he pleased; but that
none should say that of his wife that she
did not desarve; however, the upshot OF
the thing was, that we got warning 10 quit
all of suddent; but there was no help for IT.
as the neighbors said, true for them-thai
! Thomas was by no means as strong mar
as before the feaver, and the stewart tounc
out some stranger who offered money dowr
on the nail for the land, ior we had it II
prime order. Every one cried shame OF
the landlord, but sure there's no Justice fol
the poor twas a sorrowlul parting-fol
some how a body gets fond Of the bits o
trees even that grow under their own eye
and was near my laying-in--and th'
troubles came at once--and ali swe coult
get to shelter US was damp hole OF
place. My husband got plinty of work
and though it wasn't in natur not to lamen
bygone comforts, yet sure the love was, t.
the good, firm--aye, frmer than ever, an
no blight was on our name, nor isn't to thi
day; thank God for it, for nobody breath
ing can say, Thomas, or Mary Clavery, y
owe me the value of ehraneen.'
"The change OF air, and the frettlng, an
one thing or other, made me very weakly
and we lost the fellow twin TO this one
it was happy for the -darlint--but oh
was heart-scalding to see it peeking an
,, peeking, wasting and wasting, and to wal
the drop of wine, or the morsal of mat
that might Keep 1t to be blessing TO I
parents grey hairs; it was then just aftc
; my chiid's death, that 10 drive the sorro
: from his heart, Thomas took little to ii
6 drop, and yet he wasn't like other mel
:, u that grow cross and fractious; he was a
u ways gentle TO me and the young ones, b
J in the end il ruined US, as it does all wi
; have any call to it-for he was as fine
> young man, though / say il, as ye cou
J see in a days walk-standing six feet tv
: in his stocking vamps, and admired for b
\ beauty and we went to the next town
{ sell my little spinning, that had done
d keep the dacent stitch on the childer; an
as was fated ! suppose, who should be ther
r but the devil in the shape of recruitil
d sargent-and when the drinks in, the wi
10 out--and he --liSed---And the pal
r ing---oh! but thought the life would la
+ me--sure followed him to the place
embarkment, and there they druy me fro
at him---and / stood on the sea shore---a
lg saw him on the deck of that black ship,
re arms crossed. over his breast like one mi
= ancholy mad and it was long before
to lieved he was really gone-,-gone--gon
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