The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-12

EN- came to grief. No matter. Lucy
she took to the young Bytheway, an' e
tried hon hold game with 'er, but she
were too good or two KNOWN to be de-
ceived. believe she really liked the
man. e we're a terrible temper. No
one 'ad ever controlled it. Ed grown
up just like that stalk of mullen you
see there, as straight and as long as he
liked, an breakin' out at every stage.
Now you want to know 'ow they
come hout to this place? I can't tell
you. All know is, that halter spoonin'
about the girl for a precious long time,
and she playin' off an hon with i'm,
one day she didn't come to rehearsal,
an then hit were rumoTed among the
young ladies she 'ad run away with Mr..
Bytheway. The old gent an the young
'un 'ad 'ad a row, han the young I'M
said that rather than kill the old fool,
he'd leave him. Well a year after,
came across a immigration hagent. e
told me about Canada an the free
grants, an lookin' round on all these
hungry children, said "We'll try it
its worth the venture" I'd saved a
little money, an when I got to Toronto
I applied for lard at the government
Office, an they give me this concession
free. We got ere about the 1st of
June, han lived in the woods for some
weeks. / tell you the musketoes were
awful. But you'll fancy 'oW l started
when the first thing L see on the next
lot, where that 'ouse 'ad lately been
built, was young BytheWay in a torn
shirt an trousers, hoein' round among
the stumps just as if ed been at it all
is life. Then hout comes Miss Lucy
then Mrs. Bytheway, for they'd got
married before they left England
lookin' pale-like, has I've seen Mrs.
WellbeloVed look oftener than I cared
for. We was very good friends, au'
the young gentleman, who was smart,
as they say ere, g put me hup to a
good many things, an showed me 'ow
to build my 'ouse, an all the Majors
was kind an 'elpful enough, has all the
people are hout ere to strangers. Well,
young Bytheway was kind enough to
Lucy, an, for all I saw, she was fond of
i'm, but once or twice 1 noticed he went
off to Orilia an stayed away some days,
it might be three or four, an when he
came back again he wosnt 'imself for
long time. 1 knew what it was it
was the hold enemy-d rink-an' for the
time hit made i'm another man.
I" By and by the autumn came, an we
got in our Toot-crops an little corn an
wheat, an Bytheway laid in a decent
lot. Then came the frost, an the fall
ing Of the leaves, an then the snow.
Such snow? I've seen snow ten or fif-
teen feet deep down in that gully, an
all as crisp an shiny as the finest sugar,
an the cir as pure an the sky as bright
as I ever see painted in q Hitalian scene
at the theaytor. Healthy 4? 1
should think SO. There amt no doctor
nearer than Grayenhurst, an 1 never
card Of i'm comm up here except to
Joseph JobsOn's grandmother they
say she's nigh onto 80, an took the
| rheumatic so bad they thought she
were dyln, and sent for i'm to 'elp 'er
on. Well, it was the second year, and
then in the snow time came Christmas,
an the tavern-keeper down at Brace
bridge, he gave out a turkey. shootin',
and Mr.. Bytheway on the day before
! Christmas left is wife in our charge
| she were very near FER confinement-and
went to try is luck. She come over
/ ere Christmas heve, an though she
never said Eothin', she weren't in no
| spirits, We all noticed. My wife, of
course, see the most of 'er, and tried 'er
! best to coax 'er to be more lively-like.
| She would go 'ome that night, and, next
| mornin, my wife went hup to 'er for
hour or 30. She left FER dressed an
comfortable, waitin' for Bytheway's re.
turn. She expected i'm to reach 'ome
about or 4 in the afternoon. went
in after midday an then she were q
! layin' the cloth for Christmas dinner.
The room was always very clean, an
she'd stuck some green about an orna-
mented the table an made it all look
very nice, far better than we poor people
can do out here, for Bytheway kept some
OF is hold 'abits, an she loved to make
! the 'ouse as swell-like as possible, I
| thought she looked very pretty though
she was so pale, and she 'ad one of 'er
old theayter flowers n 'er brown air
! 1t were pleasure to me to see 'er.
"' Why, Mrs. Bytheway,' I says,
Merry Christmas"
60 Merry Christmas, Wellbeloved. ,
| says she. An then turnin' roun' sharp.
she says, How soon do you think Rev
mold can get home? lie was to leave
| Bracebridgo early this morning and
walk ont. have plum pudding for
him. He knows nothing about it. 1
wish he was home
"She went an looked out of the
door, but the wind blew sharp from the
north, an she came in with a SILVER. I
stayed with 'er more then hour, 'avin'
nothin' partickler to do, an left 'er at
very near o'clock. L 'ad to come right
| Gown from the door, You see, to that
gate, an then along the road for half a
milo to my own path. I'd got very close
to the tUrnin' into my own land, when I
see Bytheway strugglin' up the road
through the snow. ] waited for i'm,
"'Allo, Mr.. Bytheway,' 1 saws, $50
| ere You arc at last Anv luck n
shOotin p"
81 see IN moment o were hout o.
sorts. Is face we're swollen an red, an
he scowled at me very augry-Iike.
Not a d ching, says e.
"Then e came on straight at me, an
seem e were not safe to speak to, 1 got
bout o the way an went 'ome.
Poor Lucy 7 Gays 1 to my wife.
She amt IN for amerry Christmas, I'm
afraid
81 watched i'm staggerin' along and
cussln' an svearin' as . went, till e
reached the door. Then see Ter run
out, as well as she could, poor thing,
for twas very near, an see i'm brush
FER hout of Us way with is arm. II
didn't knock 'er down.
! "'Poor Lucy + says ]. She amt in
for merry Christmas, Tn afraid
Just then we card the report of a
| gun, an both rushed to the door. There
was nothin' to be seen at first, but pres
emily Bytheway ran ont with is and
over is face. T. threw 'imself into the
snow an lay there a long time; then g
| got mp an ran down to the road, an so
off beyond Stony Jansen the Swede's
| there
" Well" says to my wife, "yoa an
/ 'ad best SO up an see what's become
of Lucy. This don't seem all right.
" The door was open when we got
there, an the first thing we saw was
Lucy Bytheway, holdin' in her bosom,
and groaninG', an great spot OF blood
| over the white cloth she 'ad laid ; an
there, thrown down on the table, crash
in an breakin' the crockery an the
glass, was Mr.. Bytheway's gun with its
| muzZle within two feet of he's breast
knew then she'd been shot. We laid
'er on the bed. She swooned away.
went away an got such baby clothes as
we 'ad, an my poor wife she STAYED
there an 'elped that poor young crea-
ture to fight with death for the life she
a 4 % INrrr I