Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-20

was ODllSeU C0 tO nun. All then ne come back to me an says he, Goodmornin, I must go to the office. I hope you'll have a good time for the rest of your trip. If you happen to run short lunertics, jus let me know, and I'll furnish you with another pair. All right says I; but you mustn't bring your little girl along.
 ''He kinder laughed at this, as he walked away, an then he turned around an come back, and says he, Have you been to any the- ay-ters, or anything, since you've been in town ? Mo- says l, not one.' We'll says, he you ought to go. Which do you like best, the the-ay-ter, the circus or wild-beasts?' Idid really like the the-ay-ter best, havin' thought of bein' aplay -actor, as you you know, but considered I'd better let that kind O thing slide jus now, as bein' little too romantic, right after the 'sylum, an so says I've been once to circus, an once to wild-beast gar den, an like em both. I hardly know which like best-the rearin' beasts, a-prancin' about in their cages, with the smell of blood an hay. an the tower!n' elephants or the horses, an music, an the gauzy fggers at the circus, an the splendid knights in armer an flashin' pen nants, all on frey steeds, a-plungin' ag'in the the sides of the ring, with their flags a-fyin' in the grand entry,' says l, real excited with what remembered about these shows.
 "' Well,' says he I don't wonder at your feelin's. An now here's two tickets for to- night, which you an your husband can have, if you lke for can't go. They're to a meet in of the Hudson County Enter mo-logical Society, over te Hoboken, at eight O clock.
 :" Over to Hobokenr says I that's long way
 '.'Oh no, it aint,' says he. An it wont have them shows in the city, for, if the crea- WI O 1Anon fhnro'a m RpnIDin, xUh hot might happen. So take lem, an have as much fun as you can for the rest of your trip. Good bye!' an off he went,
 @"Well, we kep strait on to the doctors, an glad we was when we got there, an mad he was when we lef' Mrs. Jackson an the Gener- al on his hands, for we wouldn't have no more to do with lem an he couldn't back out from see. in to their goin' back. I thought at first he wouldn't lift finger to get us cur trunk; but he cooled down after bit, an said he hoped we'd try some different kind of institution for the rest of our trip, which we said we thought we would.
 ''That afternoon we gawked around a-look. in at all the outside shows, for Jone said he'd have to be pretty careful of his money now, an he was glad when l told him l had two nin.'
 "As we was a-walkin' down to the ferry, af. ter supper, says he:
 |" Suppose you let me have look at them tickets
 'So I hands 'em to him. He reads one oi 'em, and then he reads the other, which he needn't a done, for they was both alike, an then he turns to me, an says he
 "'What kind of man is your boarder as was?
 ''It wasn't the easiest thing in the world tt say jus what he was, but give Jone the idea in general sort of way, that he was pretty lively.
 "'So should think, says he. He's beer tryin' trick on us. and sendin' us to the wrong place. It's rather late in the season fol a show of the kind. but the place we ought to go is potato-feld.'
 What on earth are you talkin' about :? says I, dumfoundered.
 "'Well, says he, It's trick he's been play. in. he thought bridal trip like ours ought tc have some outlandish wind-up, an SO he sent us to place which is meetin' of chaps who are agoin' to talk about insec, ,s,-principally potato bugs, 1 expec-an' anything stupidel than that, 1 s'pose your boarder as was couldn't think Of, without havin' good deal O time t( consider
 'It,s jus like him. says I. Let's turr round and go back" which we did, prompt
 
 was sellin' papers, but I don't believe he went.
 "'Now thcn,' says Jone after he'd been thinkin awhile, 'thcre'll be no more foolin' on this trip. Eve blocked out the whole of the rest of it, an we'll wind up a sight better than that boarder as was has any idea of. Tomorrow we'll go to fathers an if the old gentlman has got any money on the crops, which I. expec' he has, by this time, I'll take up part O my share, an we'll have trip to Washington an see the President, an Congress, an the White House, an the lamp always a-burnin' before the Su. preme Court, an-'
 "'Don't say no more, says I, its splen- did :.
 ''So early the nex' day, we goes off jus as fast as trains would take us to his fathers, an we hadn't been there morn ten minutes, be- fore Jone found he had been summoned on a jury.
 "'When must you go ? says I, when he come, lookin' a kind O pale, to tell me this.
 "Right off, says he. The court meets this mornin', If don't hurry up, I'll have some of em after me. But I wouldn't cry about it. 1 don't believe the case II last mOre'n a day
 ''The old man harnessed up an took Jone to the courthouse, an went too, for might as well keep up the idea of a bridal trip as not. 1 went up into the gallery, and Jene, he was set up among the other men in the ju- ry-bex.
 ''The case was about man named Brown, who married the half sister of a man named Adams, who afterward married Browns moth CT, and sold Brown house he had got from Browns grandfater, in trade fer half a grist- mill, which the other half of was owned by Adams half-ssters first husband, who left all his property to soup society, in trust, till his son should come of age, which he never did but left a will which gives his half of the mil to Brown, and the suit was between Browr and Adams and Brown again, and Adams half. sister, who was divorced from Brown, and g man named Ramsey, who had put up a new over-shot wheel to the grist-mill."
 That case wasn't easy one to understand as you may see for yourselves and it didn't full week. When there wasn't no more wit nesses to carve up, one lawyer made speech. an he set that crooked case so straight. that you could see through 1t from the over-shot wheel clean back to Browns grandfather. Then another feller made speech, and he set the whole thing up another way It was jus as clear, to look through, but it was another case altogether no more like the other one than apple pie is like mug e cider. An then they DOtn LOOK Il up, an they swung 1t around between them, till it was all twisted an knotted an wound up, an tangled, worse than skein O yarn in a nest O kittens, an then they give it to the jury.
 Well, when them jurymen went out, there wasn't none of lem, as Jone tole me afterward, as knew whether it was Brown or Adams as was dead, or whether the mill was to grind soup, or to be run by soup power. Of course they couldn't agree; three of 'em wanted to give verdict for the boy that died, two of lem was for Browns grandfather, an the rest was scattered, some goin' in for damages to the wit nesses who ought to get somethin' for havin their characters ruined. Jone jus held back, ready to jine the other eleven as soon as they'd agree. But they couldn't do it, an they was locked up three days and four nights. You'd better believe I got pretty wild about it, but come to court every day an waited an waited, bring-in' somethin' to eat in baskit.
 "One day, at dinner time seed the judge a. standin' at the courtroom door, a-wipin' his ferrid with handkerchief, an went up to him an said, Do you think, sir, they'll get through this thing soon?
 "'I can't say, indeed, said he. Are you in terested in the case?'