Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-06-08
BUTLER. PA. WEDNESDAY,. J( NE 8 1881

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J those pounds that night at PRAYERS
How he did mourn and weep for all
the Gallio-like, nothin'- -keerin, down.
ward. rushin' sinners of a gainsaying'
world
What always strikes me, Mr.. Pea
cock said his wife after rising from
her knees,-'what always particular
struck me in Brother Peeler is he's so
able and strong in pra'r
Yes, and me too answered Mr..
Peacock, who never controverted any
thing Mrs Peacock avowed.
Mr.. Peeler sighed sweetly, turned
toward Sister Peacock, elevated his
upper lip, with his forefnger gently
tapped first one eyetooth then the 9TH
er, and then, passing it to and fro in
the vacant space, said, with an extreme
ly pious lisp:
ooh, Thithter Peacock, | with you
could IA heerd me in them dayth and
in them timeth before | 10th thethe
two of my front teeth
The next morning before breakfast,
when Mr.. Peeler, being full up to his
throat with ham and eggs and other
good things, was about to leave, the
hostess made one more fond remark.
Well said she, Pm female, and
acknoa ledge | am female; of course
| | don't know about the laws, and about
property, and all them things but, if !
am female, | know jestice is jestice !;
and no suck worldlean as your wife's
brother is ought to be allowed to have
half o. that property, and specially after
he lived so long with his parents, and
in all prob'bil'ty, brought down thar
gray hairs with sorrow to the grave
This, with the good breakfast, sent
Mr.. Peeler off better satisfied with him.
self than he had ever been in all his
life.
When he got home that night, he
limited to his wife what Sister Peacock
had said
And what did you say to that 2 she
answered, turning and fastening her
large blue eyes on him.
We'll, | didn't-ah-that is, | jest
let Sister Peacock say her say, and
my horse was there hitched to the tree,
and was jest agoin' to start and, ah
| -
And you didn't say anything You
didn't tell her that you were ashamed
to hear such thing said about Sammy
Virgins? You didn't tell her that he
was the best son that was a-living /;
that he was the main support of his
parents, and had been for twenty-five
years; and that they loved him better
than they loved anybody else; and
that they ought to have done it; and
were bound to do it? You didn't tell
her that p
Il thought | aid,-leastway it was
my desires to say, that my horse,-he
were already hitched to the tree, and
you didn't tell ner what told you
when | came from there the last time.
that while | was there | told father
that, as Brother Sammy had taken
care of him and mother 50 long, aud
had never done anything for himself
that he ought to max will, and make
over to Brother Sam more than half the
property and then the reason why he
didn't do it? You didn't tell her that!
Betsy, haint | already said to you,
or haint already ans'ered that it was
my desire to say to you that my horse
he were hitch
Her face was crimson, and her beau
tiful eyes were yet enlarged but it was
from shame, not anger as she caught
him up in his speech.
'Oh Mr.. Peeler, Mr.. Peeler it was
pity that somebody wasn't there when
that woman, who you tell me il the
smartest and the piousest in all that
Ohoopee region, was talking in that
way it's a pity that somebody wasn't
there to tell her that when Neelus
Peeler's wife, who had never helped
her parents since she was a girl, but
who had got from them every help
that they could afford to give her,
when she tried to persuade he father in
his old age that her brother, who had
served him without wages all of his
life, ought to be paid something for his
services, and when her father asked
Sammy about it. that Sammy, for the
first time in his life, got mad with his
father and said that if such q paper
was ever made, he would tear it up the
very minute the breath was out OF his
body that he wouldn't take one cent
Of the property, and wouldn't stay to
see man buried, even his own father,
who would cut OF his only daughter in
such way as that; but he would run
rway, and stay away from aplace that
he knew would be always haunted by
bad spirits. Oh, it's u pitt, u pity,
there wasn't somebody there to tell
that good and pious woman something
about what sort Of man Neelus
Peeler's- --wife's--brother was y
She turned away from him, went in
to her bedroom, wept deeply little
while, then dried her eyes, came in,
prepared supper, and called her husband
and 'Lijah to it, No one coming in
then would have suspected that any
thing unpleasant or uncommon had oc-
cured.
CHAPTER II.
A SNUG little home they had there
on Rocky Creek: three hundred acres
Of moderately good ground, a neat one
and-a-half story house, with piazza and
two back sbcdrooms, the farm well
stocked with beasts and necessary inn
pements Then there were three
negroes,---a man, his wife, and their
son, plow-boy,--camly servants, well
treated and devoted Mrs. Peeler look.
ed younger by many years, Sam
thought, and 80 told her many times.
, The work went on well. Everybody
: worked except Mr.. Pecler, and, must
grieve to say, 'Lijay, now some six
teen or seventeen years old. 'LUay
had inherited bis fathers repugnancc