The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-04-26
The Morrill, Twins.
HuM.S FErLrNa STRONGER THAN Boy
ISL SPITE.
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NJ wy Va uouy ooiu JIG uOC
tor, "accomplishes 80 much in life
- the one with the bulldog jaw
md set purposes--in short, the
:uality of holding on"
"N-no." hesitated the colonel
yet the success of these strong
Silled, obstinate fellows depends
altogether on the track on which
they run. They 60 down hill Just
as fast as they 60 mp. Did l ever
tell you about James Morrill, ?"
Probably not. I don't recall
sne name"
"Wen. he was a classmate of
Ioine when went to a distant
school, up in the mountains of YER
Iuont. There were two of the
Morrill, boys-twins - James and
Jack; red-headed, ugly fellows, so
much alike their mother scarcely
knew them apart. But Jack was
ala easy. good tempered, noisy boy,
while James had few ideas, and rs
lew friends, but be held to them
with tenacity which 1 never saw
squaled. One day Mr.. Kuddiman.
the teacher, accused James of some
nischief, 1 have forgotten what
the breaking of q window, think.
Jim denied it, and the doctor, to
punish him for lying, whipped him
severely. Teachers are mortal, and
the doctor was mistaken. jim, as
At turned out afterwsrd, was lnno-
cent. He bore the threshing with
out word. When it was over, he
stood up before the doctor pale MS a
corpse. The doctor was big bur-
~ uIan and Jim u little fellow OF
ten. I'm pay you for every blow
he said, IF l have to wait for fifty
years to do it. l never was struck
before, and I never will BIZ agalnl"
he walked out of school and never
came back.
The Morrills soon after that
moved to Boston, and James, a
few years later, vent with hls uncle
10 China. He was employed in all
English house at FoOchow as
tea-taster, and did not return to
she United States until he was a
grizzly bearded man, and as strong
AZ Hercules. I suppose that the
comparative solitude in which be
had always ived-for there were
but few English men and women
then in Foochow-had given NOR
bid strength to the feelings and
prejudices of his childhood. He
came home purposely to see his
brother John, for whom he had
shat strange attachment which Of
cen exists between twins. John
had gone to New Mexico Oh some
Wild exploring expedition-for the
vaeabond blood was strong IN HIM
Jet-but he should have returned
in June and this was in August.
He will be in New York by the
time ! return" said James. "In
the mean time / have little busl-
ness to attend to in Vermont. Old |
Ruddimsn, hear. is still living"
! looked at him in establishment. |
Morrill," I said, lyon surely do
not, after half q lifetime. bear n ,
grudge for that childish squabble.
He was no child He was a
mani He struck me unjustly. and
there is not q day in which those
blows have not burned into my
desh! l am q man like himself, /
now. and I'll give him blow for
olowl"
/ also had business in Vermont.
md | went with him, hoping to
Interfere, if possible. But the
sense of injury had ranked SO
ong in his brain that it amounted
o insanity. He was a genial, kind
hearted fellow, except when Rud-
iiman's name was mentioned, and
hen he would grow gloomy and
ilent. His long absence from q
civilized country made him ready
0 note all that happened about
lin. He took, also, the keenest
interest in every child and woman
hat entered the cars, and was al
rays ready to help them in any
ray be could. |,
At . station among the hills, q
title girl came into the cars lead
ng feeble old man. Morrill, i'm
,ediately sprang to help him to q
eat, and then be came back for
is valise. "He's blindi" be said.
Just think of it! to live in your
wn country aud not be able to see
!! The old fellow is poor, too, / ,
N afraid. I'll 60 and sit with