Ellsworth American., 1878-10-24


| "Ye see. boys. Psrson Williams, he's
dead now,-but when was boy he va.
] one Of the great men round here. He wsi
books. He writ tract agin the Armcn
/ ians, and put 'em down, and he writ bis
| book on the millennium Owe got that 'er,
book now and he was . smart preacher
folks said he had invitations to settle II
Boston, and there ain't no doubt he nigh
"a he'd Boston parish ef he'd a ben I
mind to take 1t, but he'd got good settle
ment and handsome farm In North Bill
ricky. and didn't care to move; thought,
s'pose that twas better to be number one
| 10 little place than number two In bis
un; any way, he carried all before him
| where he was.
"Pxrsop williams was tall. straight
pe.sonable man, como Of good family
father and grand'ther before him oil minis
| tiers; he was putty up and down and com
mahdin' In his ways. and things had to &c
putty much as he said. He was good dea
sot by, Parson Williams WAS. and his wifi.
was Derby. one O. them rich Salem Der
| by's. and brought him . lot o. money. and
so they lived putty easy and comfortable
| SO fur rs this worlds goods goes. Well
now. the parson want RELY what you call
worldly-minded. but then he was one o.
them folks that knotes ,ehdt's good In tenn
porals as well as speritusls, aud alters liked
| to hev the best that there was eoin'; and
he alters had an eye to good boss.
Now there was Par.on Adams and Par.
son Scranton, and most OF the other minis
ters, they didn't know and didn't care what
hoss they he'd; jest logged round with
these ere poundin'. pot-bellied, sleepy crit.
tnrs that ministers mostly hes. good enough
to crawl round to funerals and ministers
meetin's and associations and sich; but
Parson Williams he alters would hev q
hoss as was a hoss he looked out for blood
and when these ere Vermont fellers would
come down with . drove, the parson be
had his eyes open and knew what was
what. Couldn't none Of 'em cheat him Oh
! hoss flesh; and so one time when Zach
! Buel was down with = drove. the doctor he
| bought the best hoss in the lot. Zach said
he never see = parson afore that he couldn't
cheat, but he said the doctor reely knew as
much as he did. and got the very one he
meant 10 a kept for himself.
This ere hoss was peeier. I'll tell you
| They'd called him Tamerlane. from some
heathenieller or other; the boys called him
Tam. Tor short. Tam WAS q great chsrac.
ter. All the fellers for miles round knew
the doctors Tam, and used to come cleal
over from the other parishe, to see him.
wal, this ere sot up CUFFS back high
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