The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-03-25

platter, child; and many a roast pig it
has held. 1t belonged to her Aunt Mary
before her. In them days it was kept as
bright Is the brightest ssteel Jon .syek,
+see- ffenfembcr one fhanksgfvfn afsef-
father l Imean<e brought nae here TO
EdinneI and your Great nnIle Ebenezefs
fafkBzsefs 64re, and Aunt 1emlna ord
Cousin Cynthy Ann Oh, what times
Cynthy and me had in them dsysi Poor
Cynthy Ann, she married a Builder, and
lido IiTa Long aAka1, HAT nzeshs iIst;
dinner your Uncle Ebenezer ever eat off
that ere platter, for he-died the 41h= of
May-same day or the month you was
born, Jerushae and Eliza Modget, she
marrled the oh, the same. day Cousin
Sarah was married, only that was the 9th,
of February. That 1hanksgivin' Day
Mary Susan came oger in the .eyeniu'
with Josiah Perkiny and We AN played
blind man's-buff in the great kitchen
old and young. Folks said Mary Susan
'wss Sgoin' 70 marry Josiah; bat, lawful
sakes, they didn't know, for she married
Jons.hn BumbietonNhe eli the zone
! arm
. Did he lose his arm in the service of
| his country, Grandma:" - :,
Law, no, child, in sswin' mill, and
your Uncle Silas was there at the time,
and he run for the doctor, who was just
| gone to tend to Mandy Miggler's young
est tshe that was Bumbleton, and lived
on AeetiR House Hill (which was took
I down WITH the measles that very morn
in, and after him all the others had it
and poor Mandy was, kept. fussin. over
them ch ildren all WIDER e
1 AfxA uvt xsx4 I<xE s~&8 k1H+ III II
when the Old lady paused Tor breath
! X" That" she replied, looking over her
bspectacles attentively at the broken
| blade, "seems very much like an old
carving knife; in fact, remember now
THAI broken knife was put away in the
garnet, for your grandfather never could
bear TO threw away anything -
| The girls restored the ancestral sword
and shield to their place in the attic.
! ITO think" said Jerusha, "that it
should have been a lpewter platter to
| hold vulgar dinner, ratherth shield
to guard the noble form of Sir William,
and that this blade should have carved
-roastp pig instead Of vana uished knights.
| What do you think of Joe Jobstock now,
my dearss IlgTTTs =
i think be is a plebeian fellow, and
unworthy the hand of a Phimstickle.
What Ii these are not ySir Williams
sword and shield; it still remains true
| that we had such an ancestor"
| 3 So they left the old attic, never once
/ casting a1ook at the desk, which stood
there grim, dusty and silent. a The Phim
sickle girls returned home and never re
visited the attic, for very soon after this,
on the death of the good old grand
mother the house was remodeled and nc
attic left. Parson Phimstickle took the
| desk, and, after it was repaired placed
it in his study. 1t had -been-theretwe
years, nd was considered by all rather .
curious OLD deski Init, as 7 said before
/ nvIouy suspected how ou,ious II reafIy
was. Meanwhile Hannah Ptimstiche
I coHtinuOd TO dream of riUh Cousins and
ancestral knights. Jerusha had grown
more disposed to contehtment and mort
| inclined to take things as they came
One thing which came pretty often be
ing Joe Jobstocki she. had also concluded
to lake him. ssE< tS asEi
"Jerusha," said the parson, as they
were all sitting together in the study
"willvou pass me a few troches from
the upper 'righthand drawer of the
desk?"
Now Parson Phimstiekle had "a cold
and " arted the troehes for his throat
He little dreamed that this simple re
quest would lead to an important diseOy
ery-for neither Parson Phimstickle him
self, nor his daughters, nor the neigh
bors who had often seen the desk, sus
pectcd itof having any secret Now i
happened that Jerusha, when her father
spoke, was writing lie ter to her absen
lover at this very desk. 1t also hap
pened that when she drew ferth The
drawer it came entirely out. This haC
frequently occurred before and surely i
was nothing very marvellous But on
this occasion, Jerusha's eyes being OF
an exact level with the drawer, b, for,
she placed it in its accustomed niche sht
! espied small hole in what she Nigh
otherwise have supposed to be the bacI
of the desk. Assudden thought flashed
throtgh her brain. AEi Tts
Fs'her. are there any secret drawer.
in this deskr"
! Not that know of, my daughter
but, new you speak of it, 4 do re. sa,
to have noticed that the extreme right
hand drawers are shorter than those OF
: the extreme left. Eza& , = 20 ~
'sSecret drawers" exclaimed Hannah
sprirging toward The desk. " Where ?
Jerusha pointed to the place. Tht
, parson handed a pocket knife to the e1
; cited Hannah, VINO, by its assistance
drew forth, with trembling fingers, Sc
cret drawer. All eyes were bent eagerly
'sEupon it, and there, buried beneath thu
dust of centuries, they beheld-no will
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