The Republican journal., 1881-09-01

Omltting the numberless sayings, SOM
OF them interesting, in that crowd, nov
numbering a couple Of hundreds or more
| contlne myself to the main actors.
"Nell, | didn't fight it," said Ogle
thorpe, contemplating Billy with yet Ell
hanced interest. "Ef it could understand
me- he continued, hesitatingly, "my de
sres would be to congratulate it, as it
the first thing that ever laid my back Of
the ground"
Then he extended his hand partially
which Billy, when made aware of his in
tentlon, seized and cordially shook. Ogle
thorpe the while grinned, felt the wate
come into his eyes, smote his knees to
gether, and when Billy had let his han(
go, he'd it up, letting it hang loosely, re
garded it for a moment as something en-
tlrelY foreign to himself, gradually pulled
It's hngers apart With his other hand, an(
seemed gratitied and somewhat surprised
that such thing could be done.
turning his eyes to him again, he ask
ed, heavily: "Can it drink DO it evel
take a drink ?"
"Certainly. Not as a habit, but in {
social way"
IT would be my desire then, to give II
a treat. Tell it that | desire to treat it,
In the answer that Billy made to Jack i
announcement Of Oglethorpe's Intentions,
among other signs which he made, was
a pointing contemptuously toward the
crowd, and then violently poking himself
on the breast, as if he would commit sui
eide, for want OF bodkin, with bare
toretinger, gibbering the while in his
throat, not loudly but passionately.
"My gawnamighty exclaimed Ogle-
thorpe, his tongue becomingn so heavy
that he could not utter quite articulately
himself. 'What kind O. wordth watl
them ?"
Them words" answered Jack, with
the seriousness Of a person who has spent
his years mainly in the Interpretation OF
foreign, especially dead and occult, Ian
guages-''them words was this: Billy
says that whiskey is a thing he sildonl
| techeS."
"Thildom tetheth,' repeated Ogle-
thorpe, thoughtfully, as if he would tain
learn something Of these strange tongues.
But that yit he amt got no particklel
predJice agin whisky, nor takn' of a
| drink hlSSelt sometimes with a friend, OF
people he likes, providin' that they won't
want him to carry it too fur, and"
"No pertickler predideth agin whithky >
said Oglethorpe recollectingly his mind
evidently delaying upon these words, and
not following Jack at least not keeping
up with him"
'Bltt-" began Jack.
"uh, But" Oglethorpe's lower jaw
began to hang somewhat heavily and all
his iron was turned to lead.
''Jes 50, resumed Jack. "Billy says
that ne feels like it would be a disgrace
on hisself and on the neighborhood in
gcner'l, ef a stranger We're to come here
among us and we was to let him do the
treatin'. He say as for sch onpoliteness
as that he warnt raised to it hisselt, and
as he's now man groWed up, he amt
| gOln' to begin on it at this time O day
and turtherSOmorC -"
"On-per lite meth :" fur theT- tho-more,'
repeated Oglethorpe, in a low voice.
''Jes so; and turthersomore, Billy says
eff youth jine with him, and at his ex-
pense, he'll spend the rest Of the money
in gener'l treat"
OglethOrpe waited 4 moment, not sure
that Jack Was quite through with his
| translatiOns.
"Them ah, them wath it'll langwith-
eth, wath they"
"Ihey was his very words"
And et don't agree to EN-. th'pothc
he'll be artter uthin' yit more wariouth
oneth? :"
''Jes So"
II give it up, then"
They all repaired to Fans grocery
Billy laid his money on the counter and
the treat was accepted heartily all around
"Gentemen,' then said Oglethorpe,
I'm sorry 70 part from you; but my
business calls me, and | must bid You
| farewell.
Taking one more earnest, studiOus look
at Billy, he thrust his hands into his
pockets. Then saying to Jack Hall,
Tell it farewell for me- he Immediately
turned, left the grocery, and shortly after
ward the town,
From that time, Mr. Oglethorpe, Josh
Green began to keep himself more at OF
about his home, and to grow more quiet
and meditative. Occasionally, when he
was ut the GuuiI House, or Wright's store,
and others had been telling of the strange
things they had seen in foreign parts,
after listening with doubtful interest to
their variations, he would point with
his mere thumb vaguely and distinctly
toward the far South, and calling to mind
what in the times when he was traveller
he had seen, say about thus
"Gentlemen, it were a kind Of 4 egiot
and it were grppy as a wise, and it were
supple as black snake, and it were
strong as 4 mule and bull both puttell
together And, gentlemen" he would
add, 'egiot as it were, it were smartern
any man ever see and as for its lang
widge well, gentlemen, they want no
eend to its various langwidges.'