Kenosha tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1855, 1855-01-11

| craze sale irequenter, positively OutDld I,uck
| hist on the same occasi ion, and had knocked
down to her a hideous figure OF river god
IN Roman cement, which was wont to stand
in Jerry Morson's garden, with a neat bor-
dering OF oyster shells, bits ofpainted coal,
and moss, like parsley around cold meat,
surrounding it. She never had the courage
to remove it. or sell it, or do anything with
it; and it stands to this day in Holder the
plasterer's yard, a drcary, battered old OBJ
Eject, with a broken nose, and a portrait of
Latheru m, International school master, vile
~ drawn in red chalk on its pedestal.
think, were it not so heavy, the bows would
have it for Guy, next fifth of November;
yet, dane say, Miss Reek, in common with
Miss Ogle, still cherishes the idea that it
viii eventually turn up handy
As so many Dodderham folk are so fond
Ilofbuying, it'may be readily imagined that
a considerable number are as. addicted to
selling their goods through the same chan
mel. Thus you illscareely meet D odder
ham burgess, or small annuitant, but talks
of his sale, his fathers sale, or. his aunt's
sale, or his brother in laws sale. A mar
riage, a death, a removal, family quarrel,
rise or fall in fortune, are all SO many in
centives TO the Doddcrham people to call in
theauctioneer and have a sale; and you may
believe that, popular as Lille Jack was in his
lifetime, he was very frequently indeed ia
vored with instructions to sell without re-
serve.
Jacks delight was in selling inns and
public houses, bv auction. He was, as
have already limited, a humorist; and with
much north country jocoseness would he
expatiate on the neat wines and genuine
spirits, the comfortable beds, commodious
commercial and showrooms, clean stabling,
convenient eating parlors, roomy bar, an
Gent lineage, and excellent connection Of
the estabshmentshe offered forpublic COM
petition. Jacks cracks, or witticisms in the
rostrum, grew to be famous all over the
country side; sly, personal satire (genial
and good-hunaored however mingling with
his professional righteousness, and it grew
at last quite common for one burgess to
meet another in the market place on the
morning of sale, and say, Use gangin up
street t'hearLile Jaoktrot fouk, will'tcome?'
Trot is Dodderham for the familiar London
chaff
The great Squire Rigg, ofRegan's Man
or-the Lord of Re9ans las with rem
nant of feudal reverence he was still called
by the peasantry, was frequent attendant
at Lille Jacks sales, as it was he who start
ed and SO literally subscribed to the fund
for presenting Jack with the bonnY silver
hammer, which he fouSshed with so much
honest pride torso many years. The Lord
of Regans put the hammerinto the auction
GERS hand himself, after dinner at John
Quits the Royal Oak hotel, with speech
| will not say that the Sduire's speech was
bad, because Lille Jack S oratory in reply
was infinitely worse, not to say chokey. |
know that therewere a good many healths
drank that night, and much laughter and
good fellowship, and that the auctioneer.
coming home that night could only ejaculate
to his household, in very thick and inoohe
rent aceengs-'Y' Lord O Regans, th' bern
Lord o Regans. A silver hammer. Jack
thee's liley thee's lilc!' with which partiona-
bic expression ofvanity he fell, and tteyput
him to bed.
But, as has already been noticed in this
performance, there were dark sides Jacks
professional career, and Jacks hammer was
Of coffin elm as well as silver Itbecame his
duty, in the way Of business, 10 sell up Tie
Widow Webb. Mrs. Webb was poor
hard working body, whose husband, RAJ
chitc tailor, had lived, and worked, and di
cd in extreme poverty. The lone woman,
on lis dccease, took TO waistcoat-makinga as
a livelihood, but her earnings were very
small, and the times were very hard. She
had crown-up daughter who turned her
mothers Joy to sorrow, and coming in in
beauty, and health, and Innocence, depart
ed in darkness SO that she was covered with
it and With shame This help meet Yudelr
severed, the Widow Webb still Kept patient
IL and cheerfully upon her stony way, rear-
/ inc ND hertwo Young children, one ofwhom
was mere baby, grl--the othcra feeble
naxen haired, palctaced child, five years
old, by name Obadiah They called him
Oby. The forlorn struggled on and
on against poverty as doctor will struggle
1 against hopeless cancer, or a besicged gen
eral without arms, or provisions, and almost
without men, will defend a fortress agains:
! powerful, pcrseveiing assailant. But no
relief came, and tie citadel was stormcd et
j last. The widow had the misfortune to sit
under a hard landlord. Gregson, the tea
/ dealer, surnamed Smell o Brass, which So
briquet he had acquired tbro' colloquy
with another burgess, who expressing an
opinion tina, be, Grcgson, must hayc pow
er O. Brass, the tea dealer answered, Brass!
! | fairly smello BRASIL Mrs. Webb grew
in arrcar with her rent, and could not pay,
and Smell o'Brass was inplacable, ana IN
/ stluctcd Lie Jack 10 sell her up.
/ Our friend wentdowu the street towards
the Widows humble dwelling in very I'M
usual state of perturbation. TIE white bat
with the calculations on the crown was con
stantly of his head, and brought into rude
collisions with posts and barrows. The
quantities Of snuff he took were enormous,
/ and his mutterings prodisious. lie hadsent
man before him as an avant courier OF
evil--a man whose boots were hidcous on
the pavement as he brought bad tidiRgS;
/ but lie was sorely diseomposed on reaching
! the Widows cottage to hud little oby at