Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-02

HESS y ISL lOI supper, dllu WIS Cttl =
latin to git some for her. You boys
60 and be digging bait and git yer
lines"
And SO as we were sitting TRANQUILITY
beside the Charles river, watching our
lines, Sans narrative began
"Ye see, boys, Parson Wiliams,-
he's dead now,-but when / was a boy
he was one Of the greet men round here
He writ books. He writ tract agin
the Armenians, and put 'em down, and
he writ big book on the millennium
| I've got that ERE book now;) and he
was a smart preacher; folks said he had
invitations to settle in Boston, and
there amt no doubt he might "a he'd a
Boston parish ef he'd "a ben a mind
ter take it, but he'd got good settle
ment and a handsome farm in North
Billriky, and didn't care to move;
thought s'pose, that t was better to be
number one in a little place than num-
Der two In big I'm; any way he carried
all before him where he was
"Parson Williams was tall, straight,
personable man, come of good family
father and grand'ther before him all
ministers; he was putty up and down
and commandin' in his ways, and things
had to go putty much as he said. He
was good deal sot by, Parson Williams
was, and his wife was q Derby, one O
them rich Salem Derbys, and brought
him lot O money, and SO they lived
putty easy and comfortable SO fur as
this worlds goods goes. Well now, the
parson want RELY what you call world
ly-minded, but then he was one O them
folks that knO,us aUbdts good in temper
ais as we'll as sperituals, and alters liked
to hev the best that there was goin';
and he alters had an eye to agood boss.
Now there was Parson Adams and
Parson Scranton, and most of the other
ministers, they didn't know and didn't
care what boss they he'd; jest logged
round with these ere poundin', pot
bellied, sleepy critturs that ministers
mostly hes, good enough to crawl round
to funerals and ministers meetin's and
associations and SIGH; but Parson Will
Jams he alters would hev boss as was
q boss: he looked out for blood, and when
these ERE Vermont fellers would come
down with a drove, the parson he he'd his
eyes open and knew what was what
Couldn't none of 'em cheat him on boss
flesh; and so one time when Zach Buel
was down with drove, the doctor he
bought the best boss in the lot. Zach said
he never see parsOn afOre that he could
Mt cheat, bat he said the doctor RELY
knew as much as he did, and got the
very one he'd meant to "a kept for
himself.
This ere boss was a peeler, I'll tell
you. They'd called him Tamerlane,
from some heather Teller or orther; the
boys called him Tam, for short. Tam
was a greet character. All the fellers
for miles round knew the doctors Tam,
and used to come clear over from the
other parishes to see him.
"Wal, this ere sot up Cuffs back
high, [ tell you. Cuff was the doctors
niger man, and he was nat'lly a dref-
full proud crittur? The way he would
swell and strut and brag about the doc
tor and his folks and his things, The
doctor used to give Cuff his cast-off
clothes, and Cuff would prance round in
'em and seem to think he was doctor
of divinity himself, and had the charge
of all natllr.'
well, Cuff he RELY made an idol O
that ere boss, a regular craven image,
and bowed down and worShipped him.
he didn't think nOthin' was too good
for him; he washed and brushed ard
curried him, and rubbed him down,
till he shone like a lady's satin dress
and he took pride in ridin' and drivin'
him cause it was what
the doctor would MT let nobody else do
but himself. You see, Tam warnt no
lady;s hoss Miss Williams was 'fraid
as death of him, and the parson he he'd
to get her sort O low-sperited crittur
that she could drive herself
but he liked to drive Tam
and he liked to go round
the country on his back, and a fine
figure Of a man he was on him too. He
did Mt let nobody else back him or
handle the reins but Cuff, and Cuff was
drefful set up about it. and he swelled
and Dragged about that ar boss all
round the country. Nobody could MT
put IN a word bout any other boss
without Cuffs feathers would be al up,
stiff as tom turkeys tail-and that S
how Cuff got the doctor into trouble.
aye see, there nat'lly was others that
thought they'd got horses, and didn't
want to be crowed over. There was
Bill Atkins, out to the west parish, and
Ike Sanders, that KEEP q stable up to
Pequot Holler; they was down a-lookin'
at the parsons boss and a-bettin' on
theirn, and a-darin' Cuff to race with
EN-.
oval, Cuff he couldn't stan it, and
when the doctors back was turned he'd
be off on the sly and they'd hev their
race; and Tam he beat 'em all. Tam, We
see, boys, was boss that couldn't and
would Mt hev boss ahead of him-he
jest aOould nit Eff he dropped down dead
In his tracks the next mint, he Woatld be
ahead, and he alters got ahead, and so
his name got up; and tellers KEEP comm
to try their horses, and Cuff d take Tam
out to race with fust one and then an
other till this 'ere got to be a reg lar
thing, and begun to be talked about.
| Folks sort O. wondered if the doc