The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-12-12

ask YOU, but i ehali nave W "0S a., q
confidence. l will give you nve aollaIs d IL
you will promise, NOT 10 iepo'' Ivy "
until tomorrow" ..n :, : .,,,,,,an,t
,,. ".n a,,s,yar ar1y questions that would
make trouble among my neighno.s; 80 i nave ,,.
Inc hands full I can tell you, to keep OUT
n NY oc . now but Pve done 1t, and haln't
an enemy in the world, as Know.
'', " s Rnt sir. YOU needn't reply to my cues,
t;on nnless YOU are perfectly willing" SAID
the s' IA YOUR question:" said Cults, "and
| T will not repeat it,
"Wcl, Mr.. Cults, am laying fence on
tho Brisley place, that / have Just bought,
and was directed to inquire of you where g. E
! could buy cedar posts. A fellow IN tne
tore said: Cults can tell you if his wife
will let him: but she won't. She, in-
sist on telling YOU herself, and perhaps
offer to drive you wherever you 90 to oraer
them ,s,,
at told them would see you and ASK
Won only =: and the fellows bet on 1t. Iney
are to give YOU ten dollars, ana 10 Two oi
three widows in town cord OF WOOD ecu,
if succeed IN asking you tnis 9ues..o ot
alone, and making sure your Wue aoes n ~
know my business until AFTER nEeahi"'' ~.
morrow morning" ,v too
Cults knew his wife's stanulhg w
vol, ~ feel yery sensitive, and taking the
Hill from the stranger, he smiled and SAID:
..I'll 90 with YOU to look out CEDAR posts,
and keep dark, for the jokes sake; but l
don't know as she'll let me stay in the mouse
tonight don't own it" replied the good
natured Cults. +o
"Suppose you 90 to the place and see 10 10
.ett;np the posts. I will send boy to tell
her Won had to 90 off suddenly on hIti !;
business, and viii be back in the morning"
"I II do that" replied Cults, for l
never quarrel with her, but let her nave neI
own way. don't want to worry myseil
about trifles." g +bere
are no tri1es in this life. The smallest act
is important, and the easy, gooG natui 80 VI
YOURS will ruin your family: bane .na.
:n;rit today. and next Sunday take your
boys and 90 to the house of God, Whatever
She saws. and be a real man--at the head Oh
YOUR own house and family:
: at is rather late to begin," said Cutts,
shaking his head in a way that would nave
warned others from trap in which MS 1eet
was fast. ,ss
s. and that has been q crueler letter IMAM
her will to me. But will try to begin
anew for her good will and the children,s..
The boy was sent with the message Dut
the boy wasn't sharp enough. Madame
Cults discovered the Whereabouts OF ner
lord, tackled up, and went after MN.
An the way home and far into the piSnt
che uscd her eloquence, both in pleadlngs
and threatenings, to find out The mystic
rious GRAND of that hateful town nabob
that had come into the country to separate
baDDy families.
But Cults yielded himself up to a
L" dumb spirit /" for the night, and no mea'
sure could induce him to talk on any sub
iect, lest she should pry the mighty secret
About midnight she wore herself out and
went to sleep, but at break Of day she began
again. He then ventured to say AS
soon as breakfast is over pu break the news
to you,
can tell you," cried 4antippe, :" till you
have told me what that man wanted OF
YOU"
"Thcn you'll wait good while to hear
it," said Cults, "for I've vowed I'd never
tell it till I had first eaten my breakfast"
and with these words went out.
Ma'am Cults endured the torture as long
as possible, and then got breakfast. che
called to the door to no one IN particular,
Come"
But Cults didn't come. After while she
went out to the barn and found him seated
on an uptrlrned half.buShel measure, calmly
peeling and eating raw tllrnlp.
cit does seem as if this here man had
possessed you! Your breakfast Is coolin' ;
do come ill.,"
Here was point gained.
Cults went in as requested, and ate his
breakfast. When that was over ma'am set
tied herself back in her chair, with her face
full of eager expectation, and said:
"Now begin. What did that ere man
WANT"
"He wanted some cedar posts" replied
Cults, calmly, without looking up; "and
that was ull."
II I'm arrow had struck Madam Cults, she
could not have manifested more surprise
and shame. =,
81 am the laughing-stock of this town, Z"
added Cults, "and from this hour turn
over new leaf. I'm henceforth head OF
my family, and unless this house is made
mine l shall finish off room in the barn
which is mine-and you will be welcome
to share 1t with me. If not, I'll live there
with the boys, and you will find me civil
neighbor."
"Ma'am Cutts's power was broken. Since
then the farm has been called "John Cutts's
place." and he's the head Of the house.