The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-02-20

opposite to Blagly) ''to go over and have
quiet chat with him. He is not able
to 90 much about himself"
[ suppose Solomon was shaking hands
in his ordinary manner, out his long fin
gers seemed to me to have tied them
selves about mine to hold me back.
"You want a new umbrella. Sol, re-
marked I, neatly preparing the way as L
thought, turning the conversation with
consummate tact.
EDO I?' answered Soloman, looking
down upon the machine as If he had
never seen it before in his life. "We
both of us want good many new things,
Jacob-new habits, new aims, new
s'Ah yes, indeed we do" sighed L,
cheerfully, as [ felt the grip of his fin
gers relaxing. you're looking all right,
I'm glad to see Don't 60 and fancy
yourself ailing, Sol. It's womanlsh
trick and not at all like you.
ssNo am not fanciful,' he said, tuck
ing his book tenderly under his long
arm. Goodbye, then, Jacob. L shall
see you again sometime tonight, shall I?''
Awkward, that query at the end, but L
nodded yes to him just as if had known
Let me see-where was [? Well, Sol
ONION and I parted very good friends.
He looked back at me with a smile as L
waited and afterwards [ looked back at
him-with smile, too, for the moment
I turned a branch of his old pear tree
caught his hat, which he always wore on
the back part of his head, and kept it !;
and he walked to the parsonage door
without an idea that his head was bare.
I hurried on cheerfully then, feeling
pretty sure I was safe. Solomon would
be in his study all afternoon, and IN
his pulpet in the evening. Then he
would drink his cup of strong tea and
sleep the sleep of parson until morning,
with his lattice window open and a
square of the night sky exactly before
his eyes.
"My sleep is calm" he used to say,
eff my last look mas been on heaven. y
And calm I believe it was, though his
bed was narrow and short. and he
though narrow too-was long. Sol new
er could be induced to spend money on
himself which he could spare to give
away, and so he persisted III using still
the bed he had had as a boy As for
mine, I had been glad enough to discard
it for better.
Well, we had rare fun that Sunday
| afternoon. and our bird came off the win
ner, though the Squire's was as plucky a
little cock as ever got beaten, There he
lay when the tussle was over, with his
comb up and his mouth little open, as
if he were only taking in breath for
new attack yet as dead as If 1t were
! roasted with stuffing.
10 gave us a supper after the hight
then we dispatched a bottle OF port
apiece over settling our bets then we
gave our minds to pleasure, and enjoyed
a good brew of JOS punch and the
Squires though he had been beaten, was
one of the cheerfullest of us all.
As il was Sunday we determined tc
separate in good time !; so when it got
/ towords eleaven we set out, while Jc
stood in his lighted doorway shouting
hearty goodnight after Us. l had wal
ted to make an appointment with him
for the next day, that we might conclude
the bargain for the colt SO l was a little
behind the other in starting.
Take care of yourself cried 10,
you have the most money and the fur
thest to go. Mind the notes. Five
| twenties. and 7 have copied the mum
bers that we may be safe. Tell the
Squire so if he waylays you in the
/! dark. .
This was JOS parting joke, and when
answered it j gave a kindly touch to the
pocket book in my breast pocket, and the
/ Squire. VINO ltttItt us. tit1IS'i OttO OAit'o Lac
daren't try tonight as there was moon
behind the clouds.
L was riding favorite little mare who
knew every step of the way between my
own stables and JOS, so [ rode peaceably
! on in the dark, recalling the favor Of
JOS whiskey, and singing over one OF
the verses of song the Squire had
! given us /:
With five pound your standing wages
You shall daintily be fed:
Bacon beans, salt beef eabl'' ges.
! Buttermlk and barley bread.
Suddenly the mare took deliberate
stop, aud reused me from my nelodious
dreaminess. Certainly at the end OF this
lane gate opened on the heath. but
! then she understood quite we'll that she
only had to lift and push this gate, and