The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-05

g.. o"u, MIS- AmlnldaD was. The
,uss one was slicked up, and smart APP
Pearln' he had let on that he had
aH;Iney' and folks thought he was con-
49, aoie, and the other one sartin didn't
iooA 70 be no credit to his folks. Human
n ,l.n is Gurus, as mebbe you've heerd
dre gay before, and folks is apt to find it
y. eIiu easy to believe what they'd
Tuner. She turned her back on the
pleauln look that the ragged one gin
ner' and chung to the smart-appearin'
one. Garafely, she'd come to, and the
loseS mad flew into her cheeks, and her
eyes-didn't they shine! 1t didn't
seem to make the least mite of differ
enee 70 her how dirty and ragged he was.
Don't you know Bart? 3? she says
70 MIS- Aminidab. Don't you see
Darss eyesP Bart's smile? Bart's own
/" It would "a done you good to see
now the poor feller's gloomy, wore-out
iooAln' face frightened up at that. And
ne put his arm around Garafely, and
STOOD up as proud as could be before all
the folks.
:" Garry, you're disgracin' yourself
ana your friends, says Mis- Aminidab,
III ashrill, excited voice. Leave that
low cretur alone, and come home with
me and my son!'
His face fell agin, terribly. 1t can't
oe easy to hev your own mother turn
agin you!
"Friends, don't any of you remem-
perme?-though / suppose it amt of
mush use to ask, when my own mother
discwns mel He said it terrible bitter
andssad, but when he looked round he
see BY good many folks looks that
they knowed him. was the fust that
wentup and gin him my hand.
81 know We, Bart, my boy says /,
'and there's more than me ready to give
ye welcome home!'
My sayin' that kinder seemed to
start 'em, and five or six come forrard
and shook hands with him. But the
majority hung back. Some on 'em was
open and loud in denouncin' on him as
an impositOr. You see his appearance
was terrible agin him. A man looks a
dretful sight more like rascal in rags
and dirt than he does come to slick him
up. And they didn't lieve Bart Rams
dell had come to that. Besides, there
was the other one that they'd thought
was Bart. 1t was a terrible upsettin' idee
that 'twan't, and it's in the grain o.
most folks, pertikerlerly Barberry Island
folks, to hate upsettin' idees.
"The other one he went off with Mis-
Aminidab. He threatened to hev Bart
took up as an impositor, but [ see he
hadn't no hankerin' to stay round
where he was. l took Bart and Garafely
home with me, and the folks that be-
ieved in him and some on 'em that
didn't follered on. Bart he sot down
and told us all that had befell him, and
tell you twas considerable of yarn,
and every word ont was true; deceivin'
want never one O. Bart's failin's; and
most o. them that had thought he was
an impositor come round to believin' he
was Bart, before he'd got through.
"There's folks that takes pride in
bein' sot, and not allowin' nothin' to
persuade 'em, you know, and some on
'em was there. The other feller's story
was mostly true, allowin' for the odds it
made that he WANT Bart. He was a
shipmate O. Bart's, aboard the 'Dirigo,
and they was picked up together and
kerried to Australy. He turned out to
be a kind of a third or fourth cousin o.
Bart's, and his name was Ramsdell-
one of the Ramsdells from down West
port way. l knowed 'em, root and
branch-my sister she KEEP school down
to Westport when she was gal, and
got merried down there - and they
hain't what they'd ought to be, none o.
them.
"They got into trouble in Australy =
Bart and him-and though Bart didn t
slick over his own doin's none, you
could see that It was mostly OWN to
the rascally kerryin's on of the other
Teller. Bart sot by him - an open
mouthed, good-natured teller, like Bart,
is always easy took inland they got
terrible intimate, and Bart told him all
about his folks and his home; that's
that folks thought nobody but Bart
couldn't know. He wanted Bart to
send home for money, but Bart he was
ashamed to-he's got a good deal of
Mis- Aminidab's high sperit, Bart
has - and he was bound he wouldn' t
come home till he could be more of a
credit to his folks.
"But they want lucky in their I'M
dertakin's, and arter tryin' on it for five
or six years they come back as fur as
Californy. Bart said he was terrible
tempted to come and see his folks then,
but he thought he'd ruther they'd think
he was dead than know how he'd dis
graced 'em. You see gittin' into Jail
had taken the wind clean out o. Bart's
sails. For while they was pooty lucky
in the Californy mines, then agin they
WANT. Sometimes they was together and
then the other feller-Samuel his name
is, and terrible inappropriate, SEEM as
he seems to a. ben called by the Old
Henry ruther than the Lord-he'd clear
out for long spell, and Bart would
hope he wouldn It Never come back agin,
for he'd found out, long before that
time, that he was full of deceitfulness
aud lynn, and he tried his best to steer
clear of him. Finally he got into ter
rible scrape by cheatin' at cards, and
had to clear out to save his life; and
then he come here, takin' a notion into
his head to let on he was Bart, KNOWN
it could he done easy along of his fav-
orin' Bart so remarkably and knowin'
all about his folks, and every thing that
Such an onan-haarted TELLER az Rart