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

her such a terrible sight as she sot by
him; she wouldn't never "a stayed
ten years away from him, for no
reason whatever; but / expect it's
most allus the way, one sets by
sight mOre'n t'Other and then he
looked at me.
"I couidn't be such a mis'able sim
ner as thatl' saws he.
al kinder put my oar in then, and we
talked II over, and the upshOt on Il was
that Bart went over 10 POrkerpine and
got himself slicked up in store close, and
Elder Niles, he merried 'em. The FL
der, he kinder hung back a little, and
he told the Lord u his prayer that he
want any ways sure that Bart WANT
an impositOr, and, any ways, he was
prodigal son that hadn't gin no evidence
% repentance. But he merried 'em
good and strOng-and / kinder run of
an idee that the Lord was as well ac-
quainted with the facks Of the case as
Elder Niles, 80 I want took down no
great by what he said. And as for Bart
and Garafely, ] guess twas as much as
ever that they heerd it.
When they went off on the Portland
steamer together, Bart he held his head
up pretty well. There was a great
crowd went over TO see 'em off, for ex-
citement run pooty high, and opinions
was pooty well divided.
8" The other feller, he settled the mat
ter by clearin' out, as l expected he
would, takin' with him every thing he
could lay his hands on. He expected
Bart had gone arter proofs, and would
fetch 'em back pretty soon. Well, it
/ killed the old Cap'n outright, and Mis-
/ Aminidab she had a fever that fetched
her nigh TO deaths door. When she
| got better she shet herself in the house
| and wouldn't see nobody.
! "But along in June, Bart and Garafely
they come home 10 see her, and some
how or mother they fetched her round.
Bart, he'd got a sitoOation as agent or
sOmethin' o. that kind for a steamboat,
and was dOin' first rate, and you
wouldn't a. knowed him for the same
man that hung round the meetin' house
door that Sunday; and as for Garafely,
you wouldn't a. thought she was more'n
seventeen. It done me good to look at
her. They kerried Mis- Aminidab home
with 'em, and the old house down TO the
pint is shet. II does seem as if Bar
berry Island was runnin' down, so many
houses is shet." And the Deacon
seemed to fall into a somewhat melan-
choly reverie.
His silence was the signal for COM
ments upon the story of Garafely and
Bart from the men who were "settin'
in the store," and had listened in re-
spectful silence to the Deacon, who was
the oracle of Barberry Island. Some
of them thought that Garafely "run
consid able resk hevin' on him." and
that being "an heiressn she might have
"done better" But the majority were
very fond of Bart, and very much NOR
titled that they had been took in so
slick " by the other feller." And we
discovered, as the conversation went on,
that most of them had suspected him
from the very first!
The Deacon's mind had wandered
from the object. He aroused himself
from his meditations to say:
Nobody don't seem to come along
to keep that ere school. Well, there
WANT no school KEEP here when was
a boy. Some on 'em went over to
Porkerpine to the winter school and got
a great edication, and Seth Hemins, he
KEEP figgerin' school over to Plum
mer's Cove that a good many went to
but never went day in my life and
/ can't say ever felt the need on It
SchooIn' is luxury that folks can dis
pense without Sophie S1Cett, in GOol
/ Company for Man.