New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-06-19
through in their youth, and make the
boys Of their day suffer JUST as they
did rpha7a's Friend.
!. TENSIONS BET,

4 Wlen the WIDOW zoe marTleQ u OnSOn
Carter she brought him no money at all
only a small, stony farm in Nopplt, that
had been her fathers, and two wild boys
1 Of ten and twelve years. growth
Jack and Dan were hard subjects for a
step-father to rule, and Jason Carter
found his hands full. Naturally he was
q quiet, gentle, but persistent man lin his
youth he had run away to sea, and fol
fifteen years had been a common sailor,
which had pretty well knocked the quiet
Tout Of and the persistence into him. In
this time he had learned to swear as a
matter Of course, though he had been
| strictly brought up, and went to church
and Sunday school always. His mother
would have cried her eyes out to hear
him talk in this fashion, but she never
did; his father would have used the rod,
but he also was speared the trouble, for
both father and mother died before Jason
came back and when he found they were
gone he never went back to Tolland, but
after he got tired Of sea going took to pedd-
ling notions about the country, and at last
married the widow Coe and settled down
in Noppit.
He had stopped swearing long ago; for
under dear old Father Taylor's preaching
he had been converted between his two
last voyages, and, though profanity had
become habit with him, he had con-
quered it at last, aftear years of patient
endeavor. and now was so gentle, and
was SO pleasant, and pious that Phoebe
Coe thought her last days would be her
best days.
He had come to know the widow Coe
from being an old shipmate of her
brother, John Wires; who had also left
seafaring because he had injured knee,
and become to lame to climb rigging; 50
he set up small shop in Boston, where
he sold tobacco, Irvine, and other odds
and ends; but he had been married and
had one son, called Jenison. This boy
was about the age of Widow Goes young
est son, for her brother had married soon
after she did, while he was still sailor;
and when Jason Carter began the ped
ding business John Wires had told him
to stop when he went through Scranton
and see his sister.
The children were small, and their
father living, when Jason first saw them
and they learned to look for ''Uncle Jasen
every spring and fall with deli ght, for he
always brought them marbles, tops, cam
dy, string, and made them bows and
kites, sure passports to a boys heart. So
when their poor drunken father died and
the widow found herself left without a
penny, she moved over to Noppit to live
with her father; and when he died, too,
leaving her all he had, the farm from
which he had scratched scanty living,
and she found herself alone and helpless,
she listened favorably, to Jason Carter's
proposal, for he was as tired of his wan
dering life as she was of her loneliness,
and married him. The boys were glad,
for they loved him, and they never had
! loved their own father; and Jason was as
good to them as if they were his own,
though a certain thrill of emotion shook
him when his baby daughter came, that
never had troubled that worn old heart
in any emergency Of Jack or Dan. But
then Celia was girl; of course that made
it different! Jason, when compared with
his predecessor, was as mild and pleasant
about the house as spring day after a
stormy winter He became a useful and
prominent member in the Noppit church,
and never was heard to utter profane or
| impatient word. Jack and Dan loved
him as much as healthy boys ever love
ANYTHING but mischief and meals, and
Phoebe was entirely happy.
True, they were poor; Jason had a few
Hundred dollars laid by, but the Noppit
farm was to support the family, SO he
laid out his little capital or part Of it, in
a good breed Of sheep, which found
abundant living among mullens, hard
hack and huckleberry b,yshes, and psoved
in due time profitable investment For
in those days dogs, the curse of New
England. we're by no meaas commeR to
the country there was Ho reason for
keeping them, and farm egs had money
and mutton instead of bydrphobia and
horrors The wool sold well always and
kept the family in stockings, for Jason's
/ wife could spin and knit with wonderful
Irapidity; the lambs he hae not room, to
raise were sent to Hartford and sold to
the butchers, and now and then fab old
wether went to the meat mans cart in
the shape Of juicy quarters. But the glory
of the flock was big blask-faced ram,
who terrified MAJ auding Boys ans in
i truding vagabcnds, and asked no better
fun than to send melody heels, over
i head whenever he had chance.
| Jack and Dan had brought hSn up
from lambhood, but he was no longer .
4 lamb, and of his painstaking edasation
4 only one trait stayed by bim,. a distinct
and angry recollection Of the rod thai
had not been spared on his early anc
somewhat stupid youth. To the day o
i Bllly,s death little stick shaken befor.
/ ANYTHING, would send Inn, head on, q