Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28

and dirt than he does come 10 slick him
up. And they didn't b'lieve Bart Rams
dell had come TO that. Besides, there
was the other one that they'd thought
was Bart. II was a terrible upsettin' idee
that 'twa'n't, and It's in the grain o'
most folks, pertikerlerly Barberry Island
folks, 10 hate upsettin' idces.
"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. took Bart and Garafely
home with me, and the folks that be-
lieved 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 il
made that he WANT Bart. He was a
shipmate o. Bart's, aboard the 'Dirigo,'
and thpy 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. ] 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 u was mostly owin' TO
the rascally kerryin's on Of the other
feller. Bart sot by him - an open
mouthed, good-natured feiler, like Bart,
is always easy took in--and they got
terrible intimate, and Bart told him all
about his folks and his home; that's
how he come to know so many things
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 49, 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 un-
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, seein' as
he seems to a ben called by the Old
Herry ruther than the Lord-he'd clear
out for a long spell, and Bart woHld
hope he wouldn't never come back kagin,
for he'd found out, long before that
time, that he was full of deceitfulness
aud lyin', and he tried his best to steer
clear of him. Finally he got into a 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 open-hearted feller as Bart
would be likely to tell. OF course his
objec' was to git the old Cap'n's money
and he'd got considerable on il
already, one way and t'other, as ]
knowed. Bart, he got discouraged with
Californy, and started BASTARD. He fell
a terrible strong drawin' towards home
but he was ashamed to come. He rur
acrost some boys from down this way
aboard of a schooner up to Boston, anC
he got wind o. what was goin' on dowI
here. He kinder thought he could CONF
unbeknownst, and see eff twas true
Garafely's knowin' on him so quick up
sot that plan.
"The advice gin him was to bring
forrud proofs, and hev the feller tina
was passing himself off for him took up
But Bart he kinder hung back, 'coun
of his mother; the heart and spiri
seemed to "a kinder gone out on him.
"'He don't disgrace 'em so much b,
his looks as 1 do, anyhow says Bart
and 1 guess l had better go off agin
seein' as they won't miss me-thougl
it does go agin the grain to see tina
feller maxim a success on it with hi
rascality.'
al tried to prevail on him to 90 ant
see his mother and tell her the hui
story, but he was terrible sot on it. HI
felt meachin', and when a young felle
goes off to seek his fortin, as you Nigh
say, and comes home, arter ten years
with his pockets empty and nothin' bu
rags ON his back, and not much to boas
on in the record of all them years, it,
material he should feel meachin'. l nev
er gin Bart to understand that I didn'
think he was accountable for most o
his misfortins, though 1 couldn't hell
pityin' on him from the bottom o. m
heart, knowin' how easy influenced h
was, and how different he might "a
turned out if he'd fell into good compan.
instid of bad.
"We went down to see Mis- Aminidal
and tell her the hull story, me and thre,
or four others that had knowed he wa
Bart from the fust. But contrarier
crabbeder cretur than Mis- Aminidab
never see. You see that feller had bel
a coaxin' on her up, and she wouldn'
hear nothin' at all to what we had +,
say. She jest as good as slammed tn
door in our faces. l felt as eff II
ruther do most any thing than COM
back and tell Bart what she said. Bar
he'd sot a great deal by his mother
allus.
"He riz up and said he guessed he'C
go. He had the hopelessest look on hi
face that l ever see on a mortal face
But Garafely, she clung to him.
"'When l can hold up my head like
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