Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-06-14

and he looked at his Vile.
You've been joked by Nose Grice
William, and poked fun at. and made
game of by him, until l don't feel like
!. standin' of it no longer, nor ! dom
think Rom and Rene would feel like
standin' of it, not if they were big
enough and had sense enough to un
derstan' his impudence.
why, Car'line-' demonstrated Mr.
Bill.
'Oh, you needn't be a-Car'linin' O.
me = she said. And never before had
Mrs. Williams addressed her husband
in precisely that language. But her
feelings had been hurt, and allowance
ought to be made. She cried some
what, but tears did not serve at once
to produce the sofsenng influence that
is their legitimate result.
There's brother A lien, she continued,
and which Betsann to me herself that
Allen told her that the fact of the
business was, if you didn't make Nose
Grice keep his mouth shet, specially
about Rom and Rene, he would and
then there's Miles Bunkly-'
oh, Lordie = exclaimed Mr.. Bill.
There's Miles Bunkly, and which
Betsann say is about as mad as brother,
and which, eff be amt any fighter, yit,
when Nose Grice was one day a-makin'
game of him about his molloncholy,
Miles told him that his molloncholy
was his business and not his'n, and
that if he kept on meddlin' with it, he
mout ketch the disease, and Nose
Grice let Miles Bunkly's molloncholy
alone, be did'
And then,' Mr.. Bill said afterward,
'Car'line sot up cry, she did, and it
woke up Rom and Rene, and they sot
up howl apiece, and | says to my
self, I'll stand whippin' from Nose
Grice rather'n run agin sich as this
After that night Mrs. Williams did
not again allude to its matter Of con-
versation, and was as affectionate to
her husband as always. Mr.. Bill
gloried in the possession of her, and
he had good reason. He brooded and
brooded. The allusion to Miles Bunk
ly stung him deeply, usually imperturb-
able as his temper was, though not a
jot Of jealousy was in the pang. He
would have known himself to be the
greatest of fools to feel that Yet,
easy-going, sef-satisied as he was, he
knew that other people, including his
brother-in-aw, still regarded his wife
less fortunate than she might of been
The more Mr.. Bill brooded, the more
serious appeared to him the relation Of
his case 10 that of several others, es-
pecially Colonel Grice.
Superadded to o. general disposition
to impose upon whomsoever would en-
dure him, Colonel Grice had spite
against Mr.. Bill on account of the
friendship that, since the intermarriage
with Miss Thigpen, had grown up be-
tween him and Abram Grce, the Colo
nel's younger brother, whose relations
with himself were not only not fra
ternal, but hostile. The Colonel was a
fighter, and had managed somehow al
ways to come victorious out Of combat;
for he was man of powerful build,
and Of great vigor and activity. Some,
| indeed, had often said that he knew
whom to encounter and whom not.
His position of head of the regiment
had been obtained at time when mill
tary ardor, after long peace, had sub
sided and leading citizens cared not
for the eclai OF the Office. He had
sought it eagerly, and obtained it be-
cause there was no strong competitor,
and especially because his election was
expected and intended to ridicule and
discourage regimental parades. He
was greatly exalted by his election,
and became yet more overbearlng
whenever he could do 80 with safety.
That's Nose said his brother
Abram one day to Miles Bunkly-
that's jest him He'll impose on any
body that III let him, and he'll try it
with anybody that he thinks likes me.
He's been so from boy. He imposed
on me till / got big enough to whip
him, which / done a time or two, and
then he quit it, But he took his re-
vengc on me by cheatin' me out of
part o. the prop'ty, and he done that
tie quicker because he knowed i bein'
of his brother, wouldn't prosecute him
for it. That's Mose-thats jest him
Il hate the case, Abom,' answered
Miles, because has that respects Of
Car'line Williams that it mortify me,
and make me, 50 TO speak, git mollon-
choier than what / natchelly am, to
see man that's her husband, and the
father, as it were, o. them two far plnks
of bows. runned over in the kind o.
style that Nose run over him, nigh
and in and about every time he come
up along of William Williams. |
never keered no great deal about him,
with them town ways O. hls'n, untell
he were married to Miss Car'line, and
then knowed that there were obleeged
to be that in William Williams which
people in general never supposened.
'Ah, Miles, old fellow said Abram
;; you ought to took that prize, and
you'd "a done it ef you'd "a listened to
! me- and been perter in your motions
and hit on longer
NO, no, Abom.' answered Miles, biz
; arm giving mournful deprecatory
| wave. 1T we're not my lot | tried
D and tried honest and far. ! were
! not worth Of Miss Car'line, Abom.
+ didn't know it, but she did. And vi
| could see it hurt her to put th'
d waound where she knowcd it were
}, obleeged to stay ! wasn't sup
posenen, though, as to that, that WI
liam were worth Of Miss Car'lin
C neither But Car'line Thigpen-l ain
it a.speakin' o. your wife now, Abom
and a-leavin' Of her out o. the case
r Car'line Thigpen, but which she is nov
r. Missis Car'line Williams il the smarI
est woman, and got the best jcdgmeni
e ever saw. And sence she bav