The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-02-19

. that his land had not been sold, bu
he was not in the least notified b,
that fact. He was glad of his vic
tory and hated his uncle all the more
After the weary weeks of camping
Morton greatly enjoyed the warm
hoe-cakes, the sassafras tea, the milk
and butter, that he got At his moth.
er's table. His father was pleased
to have his boy back safe and sound,
but reckoned the fever was shore to
ketch them all befor Christmas or
Moo Years. Morton told of his meet
ing with the Captain in some elation,
but Job Goodwin shook his head.
He knowcd what that meant, he said.
The Cap'n always wuz sorter deep.
He'd hit sometime when you didn't
know whar the lick come from. And
he'd hit powerful hard when he did
hit, you be shore.
Before the supper was over, who
should come in but Brady. He had
heard, he said, that Morton had come
home, and he was dayloighted to say
him agin. Full of quaint fun and
queer anecdotes, knowing all the
gossip Of the settlement, and having
most miscellaneous and disordered
lot Of information besides, Brady was
always welcome; he filed the place
of local newspaper. He was a man
Of much reading, but with no mental
discipline. He had treasured all the
strange and delightful things he had
ever heard or rcad--the bloody muir
ders, the sudden deaths, the wonder
full accidents and incidents of life,
the ups and downs of noted people,
and especially rare fund of humor-
Gus stories. He had so many of
these at command that it was often
surmised that he manufactured them.
He "boarded round" during school
time, and sponged round the rest of
the year, if, indeed, man can be
said to sponge who paid for his
board SO amply in amusement, infor-
nation, flattery, and thousand other
good offices. Good company is
scarcer and higher in price in the
back settlements than in civilization;
and many backwoods housewife,
perishing of e,,nui, has declared that
the genial Brady's company wuz
worth his keep, An opinion in
which husbands and children always
coincided. For welcome belongs
primarily to woman: no man makes
another's reception sure until he is
pretty certain of his wife's DISPOSE
tion toward the guest.
Mrs. Goodwin set place for the
ssmaster' with right good will, and
Brady catechised "Moirton" about
his adventures. The story Of kike's
first bear reused the good lrishman's
enthusiasm, and when Morton told of
his encounter with the circuit-rider,
Brady laughed merrily. Nothing
was too bad IN his eyes for "a man
that undertook to prache afore hay
could parse Brady's own gram
matical knowledge, indeed, had more
influence ON his parsing than on his
speech.
At last, when supper was ended,
Morton came 10 the strangest Of all
his adsentures-the meeting with
Captain Lumsden; ard while he told
it, the schoolmaster's eyes were
brimming full Of fun. BY the time
the story was finished, Morton began
to suspect that Brady knew more
about it than he pretended.
"Look here, Mr.. Brady" he said,
81 believe you could tell something
about this thing. What made the
coon come down SO easy:"
"Tut. tut! and We shouldn't call
yer own dair father-in-law (that is to
bay) a coun. Ye ought to have
larn't some manners agin this tonne,
with all the baiins I've gin ye for
disrespect to yer supayriors. An
ESPECIALLY to thin as is closte akin
to ye."
Little Henry, who sat squat upon
the hearth, tickling the ears Of a
sleepy dog with straw. saw an in
finite deal Of fun in this rig on Nor
ton.
''Well, but you didn't answer my
question, Mr.. Brady. How did you
fetch the Captain round? For /
think you did it,
sBe CORA did, and Brady looked
up from under his eyebrows with his
face all a-twinkle with fun. 81 jist
parsed the sintence in sich way as
to put the Captain in the nominative
case. He loikes to be put in the
nominative case, does the Captin.
If iver yer goin' to win the devoine
craycher that calls him father yell
hev to larn to parse with Captin
Lumsden fer the nominative." Here
Brady gave the whole party look
Of triumphant mystery, and dropped
his head rehectively upon his bosom.
"Well, but you'll have to teach
me that way Of parsing. You lef,
that rule ofsyntax out last winter"
said Merton, seeking to draw out the
master by humoring his fancy. ''How
did you parse the sentence with him
while like and | were gomez"
"Aisy enough! don't you say? the
nominative governs the varb, and
thin the varb governs most all the
rist of the sintence."
"Give an instance" said Morton
mimicking at the same time the pom
pous air and authoritative voice with
which Brady was accustomed te
make such demand of a pupil.
"Will, thin, I'll till ye, Norton
But ye must all be quiet about it.
wint to say the Captin soon afthel
yerself and kike carried yer tw'
} empty skulls into the woods. An
looked koind Of confdential-loik a
the Captin, an siz, "Captin, y
ought to riprisent this county in th'
legislator, six L.
"Do you think SO, Brady" siz he
"sIt's fwat I've been a-sayan, dow
, at the Forks siz |, till the folks j
all a-gitten' of me opinion siz ]
we've got more interest in the coun
,y,' siz l, than the rist, siz ], 'an
we've got the brains to exart an ar
, fuence whin ye git thar siz l.
E Will, ye see, Morton, the Capt.