The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-03
Qunck Names on Rocks

delay an Instant. His timidity, his droop.
ing, hower-like tenderness, convulsed by
the insult, fell from him like garment.
With a cry Of rage apd exultatiou, he
rushed forward, and before the gnoble
figure could rise, or recognize the nature
of the attack, the daring Willoughby had
bonnetted him with his own paint-pot
The stick caught under his chin, and
he could not extricate himself Hi,
moans and imprecations from within his
head gear but sent the paint streaming
down his face aud blouse the more. No
dog with his head in a stone pitcher too
small in the neck for him ever was more
uncomfortable.
He got to the neigbboring inn in a
state which need not DC described. No
water, no soap, no turpentine, could lol
long remove from his person the marks oi
the vengeance Of Willouehby Aspen. Nor
would the aggrcssor have been suspected,
unseen as he was by his antagonist, but
that he came forward himself to modestly
avow an act which he thought did him
credit.
He was arrested and tried for assault
aud battery. The court room was crowd
ed. Dc>olatc for the time was the coun-
try bar,room It's loafers and story tell
RS, aud the gentlemen who took thei
>timul"nts LulOv in ailouoo and Privacy.
in crypt, as if it were religious exer.
else, all had deserted for the Overlooking
court room. The simplicity of the case
made its duration short. At its close the
judge addressed the jury. Fortunately,
he was wise, and a humorist and neither
Coke nor Littleton had dried up the juices
Of his afIectionate nature.
After sly look at the jury-box, he
shook his wattcs, and beamed upon the
multitude.
"Thc offence Of battery being proved
against the prisoner, he must submit to
the rigors of the law. His assault was
sudden, peculiar; and in so using the in
struments of the artists profession, and
deluging him with color, it was like seeth-
ing II kid in its mothers milk. And that,
gentlemen, we know, was scripturaly for
bidden.
But was he nnprovoked? No, gen.
tlemen. lie found at his work man
committing far greater outrages than his
own
That Nature which we so scantly pos.
sess in It's grander passages, the common
property OF the nation, be found outrag.
ed, insultcd, and dcseclated, as only one
devoid Of feeling could accomplish. Shall
sordid wretch, when we come for soul
medicine to the hills, wound every better
instinct, and recall US to the baser forms
of human intercourse, the quack and his
victim, the poison. seller, and the drunk
ard who makes him rich | am credibly
informed that even women, more keen to
this wickedness than ourselves, have been
seen, brush in hand, obliteratiug the foul
traces of these vermin, and SO melting us
by an example we shall not be slow to
follow. Remember the sensiblities OF
the accused, and how he charged him
self with a duty we all neglect; and,
while you consider the gravity of the as
sault, counsel you not to fail to give the
sufferer sufficient damages for his terror
and annoyance"
The jury retired, and brought in ver
diet of,-damages one cent Willoughby
that evening was a hero and something
in the face of his fair cousin was to him
encouragement and comfort.