Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-12-21

on EN-
$50 Hubby, she thought there warn't
no way to convince him but to let
him try; so she took the eggs out
and fixed EN- all nice in the nest, and
then she came back and found old
Tom a skirmishin with the parson
pretty lively, tell We. Ye see, old
Tom, he didn't take the idea at all,
and he Topped and gobbled and fit the
parsOn, and the parsons wig got
round so that bis cue stuck straight
out over his ear, but he had got his
blood up. Ye see, the old doctor had
been used to carryin his points of
doctrine, and he hadn't fit the Armin-
ians and Socinians to be beat by a
| Tom turkey-so finally he made
drive and ketched him by the neck in
spite of his floppin, and stroked him
down and put Huldy's apron round
him.
"'There Huldy,' he says, quite red
in the face, we've got him now,' and
he travelled off to the barn with him as
lively as a cricket.
''Huldy came behind, jest chOkin
with laugh, and afraid the minister
would look round and see her.
" Now Hubby, we'll crook his legs
and set him down. says the parson,
when he got to the nest, you see he's
gettin quiet, and he'll set there all
right
And the parson he sot him down,
and old Tom he sot there solemn
enough, and held his head down all
droopin, lookin like real pious old
cock. as long as the parson sot by
him.
Huldy was most dyin for fear she
would laugh. I'm afraid BELL get up
when you do says she.
"'Oh, no he WON'T says the par
son, quite confident; there, there
says he, layin his hands on him as if
he was pronouncin a hlessin. But
when the parson riz up and Tom he
riz up too, and began to march over
the eggs.
" Stop nowr said the parson; 'Tn
make him get down again; hand me
that corn basket; We'll put that over
him.
80 he crooked old Toms legs and
got him down again, and they put the
corn basket over him, and then they
both stood and waited.
g 'That'Il do the thing, Huldy,' says
the parson.
81 don't know says Hubby
"'Oh yes it will, child under
sthnd,' says he.
"Just as he spoke the basket riz
right up and stood, and they could
see old Toms legs.
g I'll make him stay down, con
| fry,nA hn e.,
see parsons are men, like the rest of
us, and the doctor had got his spunk
up.
"'You jist hold him mint, and
I'll get something that will make
him stay, 1 guess and out he went to
the fence and brought in It long,
thin, fiat stone, and laid it on old
Toms back
g odd Tom he wiIted down consid-
erable under this, and looked really as
if he was goin to give in. He staid
still there a good long spell, and the
minister and Huldy left him and went
to the house, but they hadn't more
than got to the door before they seen
old Tom a hippin along, as high step
pin as ever, sayin talk talk and quit
ter! gutter! and struttin and goblin
) as if he had come through the Red
Sea and got the victory.
Oh, my eggs! says Hubby, am
afraid he has smashed them!
And sure enough, there they was,
| smashed fat enough under the stone.
I'll have him killed. said the parson,
: we won't have snch critter round.
"But the parson he slept on it and
r then didn't do it--he only come out
next Sunday with tip top sermon on
e the riginal cuss, that was pronounced
Y on things in gineral, when Adam fell
n and showed how everything was al
e lowed to g0 contrary ever since
e There was pie weed, and pusley, anC
5 Canada thistles, cut worms and bug
d worms, and canker worms, TO say
: nothing of -rattlesnakes-the doctor
n made it very impressive and sort o.
d improving, but Huldy, she told me, go
|, ing home, that she could hardly keel
It from laughing two or three times il
the sermon when she thought of ole
Y Tom standing up with the corn baske
IL on his back.
e oval, next week, Huldy she jist Dor
d rowed the minister's horse and side
n saddle and rode over to South Parisl
1t to her Aunt Bascomes, widder Bas
O comes, you know, that lives there b.
e the trout brook, and got a lot of tur
n key eggs of her and come back an
le set hen on them and said nothing
d and in good time there was as nice
i, lot of turkey chicks as ever ye see.
t 'Huldy never said word to tA
y minister uf'Ottt--lia -exnerience, and b
at never did to her, but he sort of keI
4 more to his boo s and didn't take
IN on him to advise so much.
" 'sRut not long after he took it int
eh his head that Huldy ought to have
d. pig to be fattening with the butte
milk. Miss Pipperidge set him up
IL it, and just then old Tim Biglow, OIL
be to Juniper Hill, told him if he'd ca
rd over he'd give him little pig.
I'D 80 he sent for a man and told hil
IT to build a pig pen right out there t
wv the well, and have it ready when /
so come home with the pig.
1T "Huldy, she said she wished
IN might put curb round that well o.
DIV there, because in the dark, sometime
to body might stumble into it, and Il
i'd parson, he told him he might q
ost that
he sWal, old Akin, the carpenter,
it didn't come till most the middle of t.
uz- afternoon, and then he sort of idled
", that he didn't get up the well curb t
ir.' sundown, and then he said he'd con
90 and do the pig-pen the next day.
oval, after dark, Pason Carryl,
me drives into the yard, full chizzle, wi
l. 70 l-n