Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-05

full IN Blllys slght against Dig posi-;
the result was sudden and severe to
Billy. and he might have seriously In
jured himself if Daddy, as the boys
called Jason, had not found them at
this sport one day and strictly forbid
den it. Cruelty to animals was one of
the few things that reused his choler
and made him imperative.
One summer Mrs. Carter received a
letter from her brother asking her to
take his boy for few months; his wife
was SO feeble that she was going home
TO her fathers with the baby and a
young child, and Jenison could not go
with her for want of room. Mr.. Wires
did not want him in the city with him,
at boarding house, but was willing to
pay his board in Nopplt; so he came.
Jenison Wires was sharp city-bred
boy, with very little faith in anybody's
goodness. His father was a pushing
money-making, profane man, and his
mother a meek cipher; he himself, at
the mature age of fourteen, could smoke,
and swear, and talk sailor slang glibly,
for he had run about the wharves ever
since he could run anywhere. Mrs.
Carter was troubled and disgusted to
find such boy on her hands Jason
considered that Providence had sent the
lad there for his good, and resolved to
pray for him as for his own boys, to set
him as good an example as he tried to
set Jack and Dan, and to "deal with
him." as he expressed it, ''with a view
to his eternal salvation" The boys
thought Jenison as wonderful he knew
so much he had seen so many things !;
he had such a pocket-knife, such mar
bles, such a swagger But when his
first round oath came out, Jack and
Dan were startled.
"Look-a-here !" said Jack "don't
you let Daddy hear no such talk as that !;
he'll tune ye, eff he does, and no mis-
| take"
"Whe-e-ewl" responded Jenison; 81
amt baby; guess I'll swear if l
want to, for all of him; he amt so pi-
Gus himself, bet, but what he rips out
sometimes l''
"He don't he don't never !" the
boys exclaimed in unison.
"H'm! guess you don't hear him /;
the old fellow keeps shady before folks,
but he used to swear like Botany Bay
pirate. I've heard pa say so !"
The boys were shocked into momen-
tary silence; but recovered themselves
soon.
81 don't believe it !" said positive
Dan.
"And if he ever did, he don't now, u
added reasonable Jack she's awful
good; he's professor he prays ii
meetin' and to home too, and he don't
never scold, nor swear, nor nothin'
Source ever he licks feller he die
give Dan and me one whalin', but he'G
oughter hev, that's fact. Dan he tolG
q thunderin' lie and | backed him up
| tell ye We was sore for one spell, ar
ter he found it out"
swell, l know he used to swear
aboard ship, I've heard pa tell more sto
ries about him ! They called him 'Stil
Jase,' to be sure, but when he got riled
the fur flew J I'll bet my jack-knife
can make him swear inside of mex
week p
"I'll bet my head you can't p retort
ed Dan.
81 don't know as want your hea'
for anything, but I'll bet my knit
against that cake O. maple sugar you'v
} got in the closet, that I'll set Uncl
Jase a swearin' before next weeks over.
The boys were sure that nothing coul,
make Daddy swear, and so pleased wit
their first bet of any Importance, tha
they accepted the terms at once, an
Jenison began to cudgel his brains 70
means of tripping up Jason Carter
= tongue.
One day he slyly let down the bar
, into field of clover, getting up befor
light to do it; the two cows, turned ou
of the barnyard to nip at the roadsid
until Dan or Jack could drive them I
l pasture, accepted the bait, entered th
clover and rioted in its fragrant crlmso
spheres, half killing themselves wit
greedy feeding. Jack found them hal
an hour after chores were done, in th
1 condition that results to COWS from ca
ing green clover, and Uncle Jason worl
! ed over the poor creatures all day, will
d out word of Impotence, though h
said more than once: 81 wish | kne
g who let down them bars l d kinder lib
y to say word in season to him."
> The pins were taken out of the o,
n
u yoke. and never found; egg-shells strev
u ed the NOW while the family never coul
6 have any for their own use, the nes
. being always emptied the great gra
& cats tail was singed to baroness, an
u her ears nipped, but Uncle Jase new,
q sWore or lost his temner. his scutl