The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-01
Witch's treasures had been found. bat

witch's treasures had been found, bat
not soul dared to touch them. DIR.
| Rutherford sternly ordered them back,
but all hands hung fire, and their counte-
nances evinced resistance of such a
| stubborn character that Edward at
length volunteered to go with them.
Then 1t was all right, and presently re-
turned the most laugfable procession
/ that was ever seen-Wash with his arms
! at right angles, bearing his grains of
mc.ding grain on burdock leaf, which
he held at as great distance as the size
/ OF the leaf and the length of his arms
would admit, his neck scraned out
/ and his eyes so glued to the uncanny
| corn that he stumbled over every stick
and stone that lay in his path /;
/ Mercy next with ludicrous solemnlty,
/ bearing her unsightly burden on the end
of a corn-stalk; Apollo last, his weaseFs
paw and muskrats tail deposited in the
toe of an old brogan which he had found
/ by the roadside, brown and wrinkled
/ and stiff, with hole in the side and the
| ears curled back, and which he had hung
by the heel to long, crooked stick. On
they came, the crowd around them fol-
I
back and forth, advancing or retreating
as they were urged by curiosity or re-
| PEELED by fear
| II was now getting dark, so DR.. Ruther-
| ford, having had the table removed,
brought forth three large plates filled
| with different colored powders. On one
he placed Mercy's frog, on another
| Wash's corn, and on the third the musk
tai taE
Apollo's shoe. Then we ALI waited in
silence while with his hands behind him
he strobe solemnly back and forth in
front of the three plates. At length the
| bees had ceased to hum; the cattle had
| come home of themselves and could be
heard lowing in the distance; the many
! shadows had deepened into one twilight
had faded and darkness come. Then he
stood still: q am the great witch-doc-
tor of Boston. | will now set fire to
these witch's eggs and if they burn the
flames viii scorch her. She win scream
and fly away and it will be a hundred
| years before another witch appears in
this part of the country"
He applied a match to Apollo's plate
and Immediately the whole place was H.
Illuminated by pale blue glare which
fell with CHASTITY effect on the awe
| stricken countenances around, while in
| the distance, apparently near the big
| gate" arose a succession of the most
/ frightful shrieks ever heard or imagined.
/ Then the torch was applied to Mercy's
| frog and forthwith every nook and cor
ner, every leaf and every blade of grass
was bathed in a flood of blood-red light,
while the cries grew, if possible, louder
/ and fiercer. Then came Wash's corn,
| xk-bi rh
| glare and flashed its sickly light over
| the house and yard and crowd of black
| faces; and hardly had this died away
| when from the direction of She big gate
| there slowly assembled what appeared to
| be blOod-red ball.
There she goes" said the great DR..
| Rutherford. And we all stood gazing up
into the heavens till at length the thing
burst into flames, the sparks died away
and no more was to be seen.
Now that is the last of heri' impress
| lively announced the witch-doctor of
Boston; "and neither she nor her sisters
| will dare come to this country again for
the next hundred years. You can all
make your minds easy about witchesn
Then came triumph instead of dread,
and scorn took the place of fear. There
| arose succession of shouts and cheers,
laughter and jeers. They patted their
knees and shutfled their feet and wagged
their heads in dcrision.
Hyar! hyarl old gall Done burnt
up, is you? Take kecr whar you lay yo'
aigs arfer dis" advised William Writ, in
loud voice. go lang, pizen sassm
said Martha, you done lay yo las aig,
you Isl" "Hooray tag-ragr shouted
| Chesterfield. Histe yo' heels, ole Mrs.
| Satan" cried one. "You amt no bet
tern a free niggern' said another "Yo
wheel done skotch for good, ole skeer-
J facet hyari hyar! You better not come
foolin' long o. Mas Ned's niggers no
moi"
The next night was gala one, and a
merrier set of negroes never sang at a
corn shocking, nor did jollier leader
than Wash ever tread the pile, while
| Mercy sat on a throne of shucks receiv
ing Sambo's homage, and, unmolested
by fear, coyly held a corncob between
| her teeth as she hung her head and bash
| fully consented that he should come next
| day to I" AK Mas Ned de liberty of de
| plantashun."
"But, Edward said /, "why did
| those three powders turn black?"
Because they were calomel, my dear,
| and 1t was llme-water that was poured
| on them" said Mr. Smith.
well, but why did not the others
| turn black, too?"
Because the others were tartarized
antimony"
Where did you get what was in the
plates, that made the light, you know"
| Rutherford had the material. He
was going to settle in small country
town, so he provided himself with all
sorts OF drugs and chemicals before he
| left Philadelphia
but, Edward" persisted /, putting
my hand over his book to make him stop
reading, chow came those things where
| they were tounds and the balloon to
ascend just at the proper moment? and
who or what was it screaming so?
Neither you nor DIR. Rutherford had left
the yard except TO go into the house"
mo, my dear; but you remember
| Dick Kirby came over just after dinner,
and he would not ask any better fun than
| to TX all that"
"Humph| said L "men are not so
stupid, after ALL" ...FF
Edward looked more amused than
| fiattered, which shows how conceited
men are.-LipptncOtfs Ndgazine FIR
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