Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-02-10

mon sense, to take all the evils: fallin' fits,
historicks, and etceterY, with willin'
mind. You ought" says [, firmly, ''you
ought to have figured it all out IN your
head, and got a straight answer to 1T, be-
fore you drove yourself into that state,
whether you wus strong enough to stand
the climate, with its torrid weather, and
it's frigid zones. its sweet summary winds,
and its blasts, its squalls, and its hurry
Gains.
'But, as have said forty times, If [
have once, after you have drove yourself
into that state. you ought to histe your
moral umberell, and make the best of it,
banks didn't look convinced mite; he
muttered agin somthin' about fits and
things. and how ''he hadn't made no cal
culation on 'em,'' and felt fairly out OF
patience, and went toallegorin', as might
have known l should, before got through,
lit is next to impossible for me to be so ell
oquent, as WIS then, without allegorin
some, entirely unbeknone to me).
"Why." says I, ''when man buys
farm, he must be material fool, or else a
Iuny, if he expects shine on it every day,
all the year round. He must make calcu-
lations for rain, and snow, sunshine, and
thunder; be can't expect it to be all ripe
wheat and apple sass. He buys it with his
eyes open, buys it with all its possibilities
of good or evil, and don't expect, if he
amt fool. to shirk out of carrin' OF
'em.''
sWho has shirked out of carry on
'em?" says banks. 81 hain't.''
"Yoa have,'' says Josiah, jumpin' up
unexpected, and hollerin' at him agin.
And his face was red as frebrand. You
haze"
81 hahn IT, says banks.
'You have" says Josiah, ''And don't
you dispute me agin. if you know what is
good for yourself. You have shirked out
of carryin' that dumb boy of your'n in his
dumb fits. And let you know that [
have broke my back, for the last time, a.
luggin' him round; or somebody, or sum-
thin is a-goin' to get hurt, and can tell
you so, dang it.
I felt as if I should sink. My Josiah
was almost dom what Mrs. Job advised
Mr.. Job to do. when be was smote with
agony and biles. He was almost swear
in. But here is where I and the late Mrs.
Job differ. know my pardner's suferin's
wus intense, and his sufferin's wus terri
BILE to me. But still I says to him, in a
rsprovin', but tender and plying tone; for
I love that man so well, that even his
wrong DOM can It make my affection for
him tottle; but still, can't see him rush
into profanity and wickedness, without
warnin' of him. Says L:
''Be calm, JOSIAH
Says he. II won't be calm"
Says I, "Josiah, you must. You are
almost delerious. You are a-swearin'. Jo-
siah. Be calm.''
''Oh, how my pardner did look IL his
mean. But felt that could overlook it
on him; for he knew not what he wus
a-sayin'.
Before I could get soothin' word in,
banks spoke right out, and says he:
"You promised to take 'em for all sum-
mer, and if you don't, won't pay you a
cent for their board, and-you can't make
me.''
Here, Josiah's mean turned pale as a
white milk-pail. But in spite of that be
made 'em all go, that very day.
He hired a lawyer to PROSECUTE Dapks;
but banks bein' sharpwitted and ugly,
land sometimes [ think such trials as
banks underwent, if anybody don't take
'em as means of grace, makes anybody
ugly: I can't help feelin' sorry for banks.
after ally. But as wus a-sayin', banks
worked it in such way, that Josiah lost
the case, and had to pay the cost on both
sides. He groans every time he thinks of
t.
And don't think, and he don't think,
that his back will ever be sound agin. He
strained it beyond it's strength, with them
Summer Boarders. Peterson's Maqalsane.