The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1856-03-13
WHOLE NUMBER 257

he was only playiu wid him, aud tanta-
lizin the old sinner
'All fair, says the Colonel, and with
that be ax'd him if he could stop wo.
mans tongue. .. -.-
'Thry me, says Ould Nick.
.'Well, then, make my lady's tongue
bc quiet for the next month and III
thank you.
'Sho will never trouble you agin,
says Ould Nick aud with that tho
Colonel heard roarin and cryin and the
door of bis room was thrown open, and
in ran his daughter and fell down at his
feet, telling him her mother had just
dropped dead.
The mint the door opens the divit
runsand hides himself behind big
chair and the Colonel was frekened
almost out of his siven sinsss, by reason
of his poor lady, let alone the jeopardy
ho was in himself, ssein bow the divii
had forestalled him every way, and after
ringing his bell, and calling to his sar-
viuts, and recovering his daughter out
Of her faint, he was going with her out
of her room, when tho devil caught
howld of him by the skirt Of the coat
and the Colonel was obliged to let his
daughter be carried out by the sarvints,
and shut tho door afther them.
'Wsll,' says the .divil, and he grim
ned and waeged his tail, and all as ono
as dog when he is pleased, what do
you say now p says he. ''. Ft *-
'Oh,' says the Colonel, only lave
mo alone until bury my poor wife,
says he, 'and III 60 with you then, you
villain, says he. -
Don't call names,' says the divil /;
yeu had betther keep civil tongue in
your head, and if it doesn't become gen.
tlemen to forget good manners
'Well, sir, to make long story short,
the divil purtended to let him of, out of
kindness, for three days, until his wife
was berried but the raison Of it was
this, that when the lady, his daug hter,
tainted, he loosened the clothes about
her throat, and in pulling some Of her
dress away, he took off a goold chain
that was on her neck and put it into his
pocket, and the chain had diamond
cross on it.
We'll, the poor Colonel (God for
give him !, was grieved. for the loss of
his lady, aud she had an illigant bcrrin
and they say that when the prayers
was readin' ovor the dead, the old Co.
lionel took it heart like anything, and
the word of God ken homo to bis poor
sowl at last.
Well, sir, to make long story short,
the ind iv it was, that for the three days
o grace that was given to him, the poor
deluded ould sinner did nutin at all but
read the Bible from mornin till night,
and bit or sup didn't pass bis lips all the,
time, ho was so intint upon the holy
book, but sat up in an ould room in the
far end Of the house, and bid no one
disturb him on no account, and struv
to make his heart bowld With the word
iv life; and sure it was, something
strengthened him at last, though as the
time drew nigh that the inimy was to
come he dldnt feel ai.y and no wonder;
and be dad tho three days grace was
past and gous in no time, aud the story
goes that at the dead hour of the uight,
when the poor sinner was reading away
as fas; as he could, my jswil, bis heart
jumped up to his mouth, and getting
tap ou the shoulder
! Oh! murtber, says he, who's there 2
for he was Altered to look up.
Its me, said the Ould One, an no
stood right fornist him, and bis eyes
like Goals Of Gre, lookin him through /,
and be said, with voice that most
split his ould heart-Come say' ne.
Another day, cried out the poor
; Colonel,
No, another, said Satin.
Half m hour' a.,
;. Not a qusrther, says tho divil, grin-
ming with a bitter laugh, give over yer
reasiu bid ys, says be, and come away
wild me. .g..
sLsve OF your palveriu, ysu snskins
osli sinnsr, s.ys Saith; fss know yoaf