The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-06-21
COUSIN SlLE'S OIL FARM
FROM HARPER's WEEKLY.

''The most dreadful SMELL What on eartl
is it2 Sally!-I say
"P'raps it S the lie; some folk doesn't lik,
, it. How de do, Cousin Peter?"
1t wasn't Sally the chambermaid
knew that at once But turning, | was puz
2led to guess who the stranger was. 70 my
| knowledge had never seen him before, OF
never should have forgotten him. Long
! and lark, with straw coored hair and blue
eyes like dull glass beads, with a nose Ions
enough to have made one apiece for three
ordinary faces, and with apparently two
joints in it, both movable, and long eX
panse of yellow check awful to behold. At
tired also in the blue, long tailed coat ane
brass buttons, the yellow vest and tall white
hat Of the stage yankee | verify belevcC
thato of my theatrical friends had play
ed a trick upon me, and was visiting me in
masquerade, .r.-.
"llow du you du, Cousin Pcter?'' said the
presence again; and | replied, upon my
guard against practical joke:
And pray, what am to call you, Sir?''
/, "Lor', don't stand on no ceremony;
amt stuck up if am forehan1ed. Just
call me Cousin Sile, :" like you used ter.
Then | knew him. 1t was Cousin Silas
Peck, whom | had not seen since we played
marbles, and robbed the orchards together,
downin Maine He had always had those
eyes, and that nose, probably in his cradle,
but he wore roundabouts and was three feet
high when we parted.
Cousin Silas! You had the advantage
of me, | admit. Delighted to see you. =
(0h, Mrs. OpieD What has brought you
this way?"
Cousin Silas tucked his coat tails under
his arm, and sat down on chair the wrong
way, with his elbows on the back and his
chin in both his hands, before he answered
me in one monosyllable---
lie.
"What did you say?"
"Ile.n
"Oh, cil?"
''Sartinly, lie. ="
As he warmed up--I mean outwardly,
not with the subject OF convclsaton-that
awful smell grew stronger Despite my de-
sire always and under every circumstance to
appear weil-brcd, was obliged to sniff au-
di"ly. Silas heard ne.
" Plain to be seen tyou haven't gone in
ter it yes, ~ he sad
Into whatY' | asked.
Inter ilc
81 trust wise Providence will never see
it necessary for my discipline that sjiouM
90 into u thing SO abom nable, - said
And then, as the smell grew stronger, | be-
gan to think of my cousins explanation of
bursting cans, overAowing hogsheads, etc.
| looked at him, and involuntarily shifted
again.
Some accident?' 1 ail, inquiringly.
'Hey?"
"You spoke of hae;ng been in oil. Ex-
cqse me; it is painfully SO. By
what accident
oh, 'twarn't adzactly accident" inter
rupted tousin Silas II s'pose you heard
Of my mhrrying Suke Jenks?"
Yes. | received cake. "
'Lor yes; mother jerks made it 'twam'k
Ii lieh1t e.: NEEsl. snke she's dead and I'm
II regret to hear it,
''Waal, it can be helped, you know
Did man jerks died afore her. an he left
ler some land deown in Pennsylvania, be.
sdes the Jenks farm up our way, ye sec. .
"You may say 'Ahp Dye know ] went
lown to see that land, an twant with
hucks? I'd sold it, only nobody 'ud give
ne nuthin fur it. So kinder Gin up ali
thoughts about it I'll last year. Then what
ye spose happened?'
"You sold it,
Anything, green in my eye Cousin Pete?
No, IT that land took to spouting,"
TO spouting?"
Yes, you never seen the beat. Little
10y took acoal shovel to get some .sile for
ower-pct, and the minute he struck the
rth up spouted lie, like this yer fountain in
he Union Square you Workers are SO proud
I when it's on full head. Most smo,b.
red, the. ,,pees- s-ehild, -Wa'al, fact is nv
ract's lie tract eg, IL :, =, S ~
dear mel I. -. k. { (. ...y II. ~.
,"Of course ! came down and fetcht hands 1
,,eow there's about fifty lie fountains in FIJI
lay. Men DRAWN it off in buckets. {Sot