Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-08-01

Have you got burrs on you?" he
asked.
What do you mean? You talk
foolish"
@ I mean, have you relations, people
who beat you out of your wages ?"
"sNo."
So,-then you keep it in the savings
bank?'
" You're great hand at questions !"
What you don't want to say, that
nobody can make you tell
She laughed aloud it was no good
tempered laugh quite the contrary,
but in the midst of her laugh she burst
out:
at is strange, you have 800 and 1,
too, have 500, and you are named Adam
and [ Eve"
The dog awoke when the name Adam
was mentioned and barked loudly That
was a timely bark, for Adam would not
have known what further to say or per-
haps he was afraid of what he wanted
to say. While he quoted the hound he
gained composure for himself and began
again:
People say | am none Of the clever
est; it must be true. My master, and
all | knOw-and every week go to the
grain market-all of them are cleverer
and smarter but | am not on that &C
count by any means a stupid-head, an
IDIOT,
He paused it was for her to corrob-
crate that And, indeed, she did so, for
she said:
"He who buys you for an idiot is
sold"
He laughed out loud, and Melac
chimed in but he could only express
his laughter in barking Pulling out q
stalk of grass and putting it between his
teeth, Adam continued
| want to say something. You won't
get mad? %
" l can't say that beforehand don't
know what it is"
"Look here mean-with so much
money put together something might be
done. If four working hands took hold
of it, a little property could be bought
over on the other SIDE and we shouldn't
have to say good-by to any one. [
should have liked to have gone to Ameri-
ca long ago, but-all alone in this way
it's too lOnely,-I-I-nOw Just think it
all over"
~ have thought it all over There's
nothing to be done with me-"
Why? Are you fixed?"
NO"
Were you never IN q tiX?
"Well, I'll tell you squarely, it's luck
the boy died, for no child of such a
wicked fellow ought to be alive in the
world"
"Who was its father?"
"A millers apprentice. He got mar
ried a long while ago.
Adam pulled off his hat, and put it on
again, something quivered in singular
way in his face, his eyebrows bristled
up, he moved his lips as if he were
sucking at something, then he looked
up into the tree as if up there some one
were seated who had a remark to make
to him; finally he said:
"Well, that's just the way of it,
Then he burst out:
"And [ maintain you might as well
be called widow"
II thank you"
Il don't know what for"
THAT was kind speech of yours; !
shall not forget it; it pleases me more
than if you had made me present OF
the kerchief."
A longer pause took place.
DO you still like being out at ser
vice." said Adam at last.
eyes. And you, too ?"
eyes, well enough; but mean
What do you mean? Talk ahead; !
like to hear you now"
q mean we ought to be able to meet
again
That might happen. But, as | have
heard tell, we live good piece apart"
"Couldn't we live near together, just
as we do now ?'
"Do [ understand you right?'
Yes, you understand me right, and
what do you say of it?"
"I-I thank you a thousand times. ]
swore at that time that, as long as
lived, [ would never hear Of any man
whatever"
"You can't forswear yourself like
that"
Eyes, yesv'
Way do you get up? Have I done
you any harm %
"None at all-none at ALL You have
meant right. God be with your' and
she went off at quick step.
"Wait moment, [ want to give you
good-by shake of the hand"
She motioned him off with hand
thrust backward and ran quickly away
Adam sat on the grass-strip as if spell
bound. He watched the figure Of the
hurrying woman until his eyes brimmed
over. He did not see how the recedine
woman let fall bright tear-drops. She
was amazed when she perceived that
she had wiped away the tears with the
pretty silk kerchief.
In the evening Adam rode down the
valley with his master as far as the rest
ing-place, where the gray nags of the
mill were waiting for them An hour
before Eva had driven with her masters
people up the valley to the resting place
where two black horses awaited their
coming.
The evening mists Of autumn waved
and poured over the valley on this side
and over the valley on that; the water
there was r]Shinr on and II uaa r,,ebipo