Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-04-27

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which he practiced to far greater dc
gree than his master. In conse
quence of very common mistake o.
the means for the end, he deprived
himself not only of what are termed
the pleasures, but even of the neces
saries of life. At times however, he
would lament that he did not make a
better use of his riches; and was
once heard to regret that he had not,
according to his original intention,
set up a whisky business. which. in
his opinion. was the ne plus ultra oi
gentility. On another occasion, upon
receiving twopence for q pint of beer,
from a deputy commissary, who was
about to pay him five hundred pounds
for hay during the war. and had mis-
taken him for one of Squire Dancers
servants, he bridIed up. and said tha,
he intended soon to become gentle.
man himself!
Both he and his father, during q
series of more than sixty years, had
allowed themselves two jubilee days
in the year: these were their festi-
walls, and they enjoyed them, for there
WAS good cheer to be had without ex-
pense. The periods alluded to oc-
Cured in April and October, at Sir
John Rushout's, court-baron for the
manor of Harrow. AS head tenants,
they constantly attended; and it was
observed by all the suitors, that, il
the Dancers starved ut home, they
ate most yoraciously abroad. On
these occasions Daniel distinguished
himself by his droll sayings; and,
whenever any attempt was made 10
ridicule, burlesque, or pass joke
upon him (which was invariably the
case, the wit and eccentricity of his
replies soon put his antagonist to 81
lence.
He had no farming business but
during the time of moving his mead
ows. That of his hay-harvest, then,
seems to have been the only period
of the year in which his mind was
occupied by business: and this too,
was the sole time in which jollity ap-
peared to be familiar to his mansion
for he seemed then to have entirely
divested himself of his natural char
acter. No gentleman in the neigh
borhood gave his mowers better beer,
or in greater quantity, than Daniel
did on this occasion. 1t was brought
from a neighboring brewhouse: for
at this time only was the beverage OF
our Saxon forefathers to he found
within his walls. Notwithstanding
the miserable aspect of the house and
its inhabitants, both brother and sis
ter 1.-THE former especially, who was
nearly naked.1 yet on Daniels death,
not only plate, table linen, and TWEEN
ty-four pair of good sheets, but
clothes Of of-vre-Y- description were
found locked up in chests. The fe-
male attire, of which there was a cor
rect inventory, in the brothers own
hand writing, was valued ut seren-
teen pounds. He also, among other
apparel, had some excellent boots,
but he preferred to case his legs with
the still warmer covering of hay
bands.
Although he possessed two ancient
but tolerably good bedsteads, with
the proper furniture, originally be-
longing, as well as the house, to the
Edlins, a family of some property,
yet they were carefully secluded from
the light of heaven; and both he and
his sister slept on sacks stuffed with
hay, and covered with horse rug.
Daniels house is said to have been
entered at least fourteen times by
thieves; and the amount of his losses
is calculated at 2,500l. AS the lower
part was in such a ruineus state as
to admit q person with ease, it was
recommended to him to get it re-
paired; but he replied, "That this
would be only throwing away more
money, for then they would get in at
the windows"
In order to employ the attention OF
the marauders, until he should escape
to his hiding place, he was accns-
toned to strew the ground floor with
farthings and sixpences wrapped mp
in paper.
On his demise, the house in which
he died. and in which he was also
born, exhibited spectacle of misery
and of terror; for it possessed so
suualid an aspect, that no other per-
son would have slept in it; and was
actually 80 .rninous, that neither
bricklayer nor carpenter would have
ventured to repair it.
Dancer, about six years before his
death. during hot summers day,
was observed by neighbor very as
siduously employed in throwing wa
ter from a pool, by means of a frying
pan, on the surrounding meadow,
which happened to be burned up.
On being questioned as to the object
of his labors, he observed, THAT he
wanted bit of nice fresh grass for
his old horse: for hay being then
very dear, poor body ought to be
sparing of it." This same person,
returning in three or four hours af-
ward, found the old man in tears;
and, on inquiring the cause, was in
formed, THAT he had worked with
the frying-pan until he was tired
when, falling asleep on the grass
some rogue had stolen a pocket book
from him, containing three hundred
and fifty pounds in bank-notes, which
he had received the day before for
some ricks of hay that he had sold:
Having been once reluctantly
bound over by a magistrate to prose
cute a horse-stealer at Alesbury As
sizes. he set out with respectable
neighbor who undertook to accompa-
nv him. Himself and his horse, on
this occasion, exhibited grotesque
appearance, for the movements of the
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