Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14

dream be was destined shortly to awake.
For few days, events moved smoothly
enough. Job came and went, said bis les
sons, went up head or down foot as th
case might be, and nothing occurred to in
terrupt the tranquil tenor of his thoughts
his feelings, or his way. The boys occa
sionally stared at him; but that was to b
expected, be thought; be was new conner
and besides, from a distance-four mile
of, at least.
But in week or two, be was suddenly
astonished to learn that bis name was Ut
longer Job Thorndyke, but "Cloyerville.'
Job did not like this; it sounded disrespect
full; but he fancied it might be "tbe way
of the fellers there" and be smiled as
it were good joke.
Ere long. Cloyerille was abbreviated t.
sClover;;" this to Clio; and this (by red
headed, freckle-faced fellow, little tale
than himself, and slender and wriggly a
an eel), rudely, to aold elothes.'
Job did not like this at all. He though
such conduct was very wicked in the boys
and didn't think he would do it if ahe wa
them"
He said nothing, however-contentine
himself with keeping aloof from them il
play hours, and soberly making his way
home directly when school was out. H
laid the matter, after short time, befor,
grandmother; and his parents; but they
smiling, assured him that the best wa,
was not to notice the graceless youths, who
would then soon get tired of their naugh
tiness, and voluntarily give it up.
But Job did not find this to be the case
In fact, it was the very reverse. The
more be did not notice, the more he Hal
to notice. From simply calling him names
the Meadowvilleans began 10 take libertie:
with his things. When, at noon, he went
into the entry, be would find his cap where
he had not placed it, and his basket
either empty, or with n stone or lot Of
mud in the place of what he had brought
All this was very aggravating, and job
felt his dander urging him to "put in" to
"that red-haired feller," who, be felt con-
convinced, was at the bottom of the mis-
chief. But grandmother and his parents
told him that it was "better to suffer wrong
than to commit it, that lighting was
wicked and that his best course WAS to
pray that his enemies might be led to see
the evil Of their conduct, and to let him
alone.
Job shook his head; he thought he knew
better way than that; but be did not
want to be wicked, and yielding to the pi-
ous advice of the old folks, he prayed fol
the Meadowvilleans, the red d-haired feller,'
and all. Still the prosecutions continued
and Job concluded that praying did not do
so much good as he was satisfied his own
plan would. -'
Nevertheless, he obeyed grandmother
and his parents, who finding him one even
ing, on his return home, strongly tempted
to rebel, told him that, if he wanted to be
'tas bad as the rest, and 90 down forever
to the bad place, be had better try it
There!"
This was enough; and Job, sitting an
indignant sob, made up his mind firmly to
forbear. - -'''-
And he did. 'l'3 'aiF gag
But it seemed only to invite the Mead
yilleans to bolder aggressions.
One day, at noon, while sitting down on
the green and eating his dinner, which, to
secure from thieves, he now carried in his
pockets, he was suddenly startled by num-
Der of boisterous voices, laughingly shout
ing behind him:
"Dicky, Dicky, don't" @
Conscious, from the newness and sound
ness of his trowsers, that this taunt could
not be appropriately applied to him. he
sprang to his feet to see for whom il was
meant, but was Immediately greeted with
a loud roar of screaming laughter, which
caused him instantly to put his hand to
that part of his person to which the vocif-
Grating throng, headed by the red-haired
feller, were hootingly pointing.
On doing SO, be discovered long white
article dangling comically from the rear of
of bis body TO the ground. Jerking it
away and glancing at it, he, in moment,
like flash, comprehended all.
Red-hair had stsalthily crept behiud him,
and slyly abstractiug his handkerchief from
his jacket pocket, had adroitly pinned it to
his pantaloons in such away, that when he
rose, it should hang down and provoke an
outbulst that would rouse him with humili-
ton.
For few moments, the boy, with a
proper regard for the bad place, struggled
to withstand even this indignity. But his
spirit, stung TO madness at. the outrage,
would no longer berestrained. Starting back
a step or tive, his proud eye flashing indig-
nant lightning, he hastily rolled up his
cuffs, singing ont his man; and darting
forward, with evey vein swollen, and every
cord drawn to its utmost tension with fierce,
unappeasing fury, smote the roaring Red.
hair between the eyes blow that felled
him TO the ground, gasping and quiyering,
as if he had received his death-wound.-
He had scarcely touched the sod, when
another struck by the same nerve-strung
arm, fell across him, head first, bis head
striking the earth with a force that left a
dent visible for days after. A third follow
ed; and then fourth, 10 keep him COM
pany; and then there was scampering in
all directions of the rest of the cowardly
miscreants-who, crowding, jostling, and
upsetting one another in their fight, did
not deem themselves safe till they had
put either their homes, the neighboring
streets, or the walls of the seminary be-
tween them and the young springal whose
unreientlng fury they had al length arous-
ed: One, coarse-witted, low-browed,