Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-06-21

InSy WaCCheQ the BOY out OF SlghC DER the n1ll.
All, then in the branches again,
Their glad song rang over vale and glen.
Oh! OIL if that boy could know
How glad they were when they saw him go
Say, say, do you think next day
He could possibly steal those eggs away
An old-Fashioned Fairy Tale,
"Don't care 80 they say-feh into
a goose pond; and !" I wont" is apt to
come to no better an end. At least my
grandmother tells me that that was
how the Miller had to quit his native
town, and leave the tip of his nose be-
hino him.
It came of his being allowed to say
ct wont when he was quite a little
boy. His mother thought he looked
pretty when he was pouting, and that
wilfulness gave him an air which dis
tinguished him from other peoples
children. And when she found out his
lower lip was becoming so big that it
spoilt his beauty, and that his wilful-
ness gained his way twice, and stood in
his way eight times out of ten, it was
too late to alter him.
Then she said: dearest Abinadab,
do be more obligingp And he replied
(as she had taught him) 81 wont !"
He always took what he could get,
and would neither give nor give up to
other people. This he thought was the
way to get more out of life than ones
neighbors. Amongst other things he
made point of taking the middle Of
the footpath.
"Will you allow me to pass you, sir
Il am in a hurry?" said q voice be-
hind him one day.
"I WON'T" said the Miller; on which
poor washerwoman, with her basket,
scrambled down into the road, and Alb
inadab chuckled.
Next day he was walking as before.
"Will you allow me to pass you, sir :?
Il am in hurry '' said voice be-
hind him.
81 WON'T said the Miller; on which
he was knocked into the ditch; and the
Baron walked off, ami left him to get
out of the mud on whichever side he
liked.
He ouarreled with his friends till he
had none left, and with the tradesmen
of the town till there was only one who
would serve him, and this man offended
him at last.
"Tll show you who's master !' said
the Miller. 81 wont pay penny of
your bill-not penny"
"Sir," said the tradesman, "my Civ
ing you ofense now is no just reason
why you should refuse to pay for what
you have had and been satisfied with.
I must beg you to pay me at once"
won't" said the Miller, and what
I say | mean. wont, | tell you'll
WON'T p
So the tradesman summoned him be-
fore Justice, and the justice condemn
ed him to pay the bill and the costs of
the suit.
81 WON'T" said the Miller.
But they put him In prison, and in
prison he would have remained, if his
mother had not. paid the money to OBJ
tain his release.
By the bye she died, and left him
her blessing and some very good ad-
vice, which las is sometimes the case
with bequests) would have been more
useful if it had come earlier.
The Miller's mother had taken a
great deal of trouble off his hands
which now fell into them. She took
in all the small bags of grist which the
country folks brought to be ground,
and kept account of them, and spoke
civily to the customers, big and little.
But these small matters irritated the
miller.
"I may be the slave Of all the old
women on the country said he;
but [ won't-they shall see that | won't.
So he put up notice to say that he
would only receive grist at a certain
hour on certain days. Now, butts third
of the old women could read the notice,
and they did not attend to it. People
came as before; but the miller locked
the door of the mill, and sat in the
counting-house and chuckled.
"My good TREND" said his neigh
bors, "you can't do business in this
way. If man lives by trade he must
serve his customers. And a miller
must take in grist when it comes to the
mill"
"Others may, if the please" said the
Miller; but [ won't. When l make a
rule, I stick to it."
"Take advice, man, Or you'll be
ruined" said his friends.
I WON'T" said the Miller.
In few weeks all the country-folk
turned their donkeys' head toward the
windmill on the heath. It was little
further to go, but the Windmiller took
custom when it came to him, gave hon
est measure, and added civil words
gratis. The other Miller was ruined.
"All you can do now is to leave the
mill while you can pay the rent, and
try another trade" said bis friends.
'"I WON'T" said the Miller. "Shall |
be turned out of the house where
was born, because the country-folk are
fools?"
However, he could not pay the
rent, and the landlord found another
tenant. "You must quit :" said he to
the Miller.
"That WON'T" said the Miller, not
for fifty new tenants"
Whereupon the landlord sent for the
constables, and he was carried out,
which is not dignified way of chang
ing ones residence. But then it is not
easy to be obstinate and dignifed at the