The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-11-05

r who, when angry with one person, can
not speak peaceably to any one else
' and as he had rare talent for maxim
his moods of mind felt, the dinner pass
I ed off in gloomy silence, occasionally in
f terrupted by some fault finding remarl
$ about the cooking, which he uttered in
tone half way between a howl and
bark. When they arose from the ia
BILE, he ordered the boy to get up tn,
; horse. 80 g..r. .i. n. "a.
Il thought you did not intend to have
us use the horse-rake any more to- day
so l turned the horse OUT replied the
boy. Y J .'l- r..r. All ...0r. .5l-s
who said anything about horsaralSei
thundered the old man. Go and brin,
up the bay horse, and don't stand ther
gabblipg.' eu.t...-r.r 9L,aelsa.
! While he was giving the men direc
! tions for their afternoons work, the boy
: returned with the horse, and said iuquir
ingly--es2 10 .-e adi 1oalj .di ss1 90
81 thought you owned the big OAK
that stands in the. fence on the south
side of round pasture, Mr.. Barker.
met Jem Davis over the hill, and he
said Sire Benton owned it, and that be
was going to help him cut it this after.
noon lie said that Palmer the ship
builder, had offered him fifty dollars for
it,. .r-. o..
Let him cut it it if be dare = mutter-
cd Barker again; and, as if in reply to
his words, there came the clear, ringing
sound Of the strokes of the axe from the
direction of the disputed tree. . -,..
The men exchanged significant CLAN
ces, anc started for their place of labor,
while Barker strobe across the fields to
a spot that commanded view of the
tree. The first glance convinced him
that the boys Information was correct.
He hastlp returned, sprang upon his
horse, and before the good axes Of Ben
ton aud Davis had half severed the hole
of the giant oak, he was clustered with
one of the busiest lawyers in the city of
IL. .I fl. 'o 4. aa. ....
When young David Benton returned
that night from the distant meadow
whore he had been at work, be found
his father listening, with knit brow and
compressed lips, 10 the monotonous, ma
sal tones Of the town constable, as he
brawled forth those absurd and libellous
charges usually found in writ of pros
ecution, and which, through the wisdom
Of our laws, any man may make against
hi neighbor, for the value of a few shil-
lings. "...''ss ... .. .s.
Hastily casting glance through the
window to see that his father had not
actually burned his neighbours house aud
barn, the young man turned to his moth
er for an explanation of the scene. But
she was almost as ignorant as himself,
and frightened at the heinous charges
made against her husband, and the pros
pect of lawsuit, could only sob out
that she wished aunt Becky's property
was All in Flinders, for il only brought
trouble with it, All that he could gain
from his father in reply to his questions,
or to the officers deprecatory, Don't
want to make trouble-friend to both
parties hope it will be settled etc.,
was That if Moses Barker wanted law
he would give it to him. He didn't
want to quarrel, be could bear as much
as any other man, but as for being trod
trod upon any longer, he wouldn't,' and
host of such expressions, though they
might serve as safety valves to his anger
did not give his son very clear concep-
ton of its cause.
A half an hour later, David stood by
the side of Hannah Barker beneath the
old pear tree that grew by the path acrss
the meadow, listening to her low but
rapid tones, as sue related the quarrel
and the subsequent steps taken by her
father.
sThis must not come before the mag
istratc, Hannah he said. We must
persuade them to settle it, When your
father gets little cool, he will see that
he is wrong. He knows that the tree
formerly stood on our side of the fence.
You must persuade him to drop the case
Hannah, aud | will sec what can be done
with my father ...f. .-.... LIZ