The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1878-08-16
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When the willow too married Jason
Carter shr brought him M money n Nil
only email, Stony farm In Noppit. that
had been her fathers, ANIL two wild boys
N IN and IL yeAr' growth. Jack and
ban we're hnrl aubjccss for step.
father 10 rule, and Jason Garter found
hin hands full. Naturally he was a
quiet, gentle, Int persistent man; in hts
youth he had run away 10 sea, AMI Tor
htteen years had been common sailor,
which had pretty we'll knocked the
quiet ont III and the persistence into
him, in this time In had learned 10
swear, "A matter of course, though he
had been strictly brought mp, and went
10 church and Sunday school always.
Hia mother would have cried her eyes
cut 10 hear him talk In this fashion, but
she never did; his father would have
used tho rod, hnt he also WAS spared
The trouble, for both father and mother
had died before Jnton cana back, and
when bio found they were gone he never
went hack 10 TollAnd, hut after hc got
tirxl Ut seA.going took 10 pctl.lling no
tons about the country, and u last mar
risl the widow Coz and settled down In
Ncpnit
He had stopped swearing long ago,
for under dear old Father Tnylor's
preaching he had been converted be.
tween his last two voyages, and, though
profanity had become habit with him.
be hal conquered II Ut last. after years
III patient en,leavor. and now was NJ
gentle, aud pleasant, md pions. 4 At
Phoebe Coo thought her last days would
b. her best days.
H. had come 10 know the widow Cos
from being m old shipmHte II her brother,
John Wires, who Ind al<n left son.
iaring because h. hal injured knee,
aud became too lame to climb rigging.
10 he nj up ANAL shop In l.nslon,
whssc no sold tobacco, Irvine, aud other
odds and ends: but he had becn mar
ricd, aud had one son called Jenison.
This boy waa about the age of widow
Cos y youngest son, for her brother had
married Noon nfter rlle did, while hc was
still sailnr: anl when .iason Cartsr he.
gan the re,ldlius business John Wires
hid told him ~ stop when hc went
through Scranton mud Ere his sister
Tho children wcre small mud their father
living when jason first snw them,
and they learned To Look for I'm. III
JaMe" every spring mil fall with delight,
for hc always brought them marbles,
tops, candy, ntrinH, nnl made them lows
and kites, hirc passports ~ q boy i heart.
Al when their poor drunken father died,
AMI The widow found herself left with.
ont 4 penny, she moved Over 10 Noppit
~ live with her father. and when he
died ton, leaving her MI he hud. the
farm from which he had scratched a
scanty living, md she found herself
alone and helpless. she listened favor
ably 10 Jason Carriers proposal, for he
wan tired Of his wandering life nm she III
her lonelincss, and married him. The
boys were glad, fur they loved h,m, and
they never had loved their own father,
and Jason WAS ~ good 10 them NJ II
they were his own, though certain
thrill of emotion shook him when his
baby daughter came, TINT never ha.l
troubled that worn old heart In any
emergency of Jack " Dan. Bnt then
Celia wan girl. III course that made II
different Jason, when compared with
his predecessor. WaA N mild aud pleas.
ant about the house m apring day
after stormy winter. He became I
useful and prominent member In Tho
Noppit church, and never was heard Il
utter 4 profane or impatient word
Jack and Dan loved him m much nj
healthy boys love anything but iniH
chief and meals. and Phrbe was cntirel,
happy.
True, they were poor Jason had |
few hundred DELAYS lail ny, hut ths
N0ppit farm VA too sterile 10 produces
cropa enough 70 support the family. III
no laid ont his little capital, Or part 81
II. IN good breed ii sheep. which found
abundant living among mullins, hard
tack and huckleberry buahca, mn
proved, IN duo time. profitable invest
mcnt. For In those days dogs, the ours,
IL New England, were BY no mean
common In the country ; there Was d,
reason for keeping them, and farmer
had money and mutton instead III hydro
phobia and horrors. The wool sol.
we'll always and kept the family in socks
for JAson's wife conld spin and kni
with wonderful rapidity the lambs IA
had not room To rnise we're sent 10 Hart
lorl and sold TO the butchers, and NOV
aud then ! fat old wethcr went 10 Iii
moAtmAn'a cart in tho shape Of jnic
quArtra.
lint the glory d the ilock WA hi
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