Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-24

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 AMOS TRENoWETH-
 Such was the will, written on stiff parch- ment in grabbed and unscholarly characters, without legal forms or witnesses, but all such were needless, as have pointed out. And in- deed my father was wise, as think. to show it to nobody but go his way quietly as before, managing the farm as he had managed 1t during the old mans last years. Only by degrees he broke from the seclusion which had been natural to him during his parents lifetime, so far us to look about him for a wife, shyly enough at first until he caught the dark eyes of Margery Freethy one Sunday morning in Polkimbra church. whither he had gone of late for freedom to the no small tribulation of the meeting-hoH Now, whether this tribu- lation arose from tho backsliding of promis- ing member or the loss of the owner of Lan- trig (who was at tho same time unmarried), l need not pause here to discuss. Nor is it necessary to tell how regularly Margery and Ezekiel found themselves in church, nor how often they caught each others eyes straying away from the prayer-book It Is enough that at the years end Margery answered Ezekiel's question, and shortly after came to Lnntrjg " for good"
 The first years of their married life must have been vory happy, as l gather from the hushed joy with which my mother always spoke of them. I gather also that my first appearance in this world caused more delight than have ever given since-God forgive me for it But shortly after I was four years old everything began to go wrong. First of all, two ships in which my father had many shares were lost at least then the cattle were seized with plague and the stock gradually dwin- dled away to nothing. Finally, my fathers bank broke. or, as we say in the West, went seat and We were left all but penniless, with the prospect Of having to sell Lantrig, being without stock and lacking means to replenish it. II was at this time, have since learned from my mother, that Amos Trenoweth's will wHs first thought about. She, poor soul, had never heard of the parchment before and her heart misgave her as she read of peril to soul and body stcrnly hinted at therein. Also her best beloved brother had gone down in a squall of the Cape of Good Hope, so that she always looked upon the sea as a cruel and treaoherous foe and shuddered to think of it as lying in wait for her Ezekiel B life. It came to pass. therefore. that for two years the young wifes t.ars and entresties prevailed, but at the end of this time, matters growing worse and worse, and also because it seemed hard that Lantrig should pass away from the Trenowoths while, for aucht we knew treas ure was to be had for the looking, poverty and my fathers wish prevailed and it was determined, with the fearful assent of my mothor, that he should start to seek this Elihu Sanderson of Bombay, and, with good fortune, save the falling house of the Treno- weths. Only he waited until the worst part of the winter was over, and then, having com monded us to the oaro of his aunt, Elizabeth Loveday of Lizard Town and provided us with thelargest sum he could scrape together and small indeed it was), he started tor the port of Plymouth one woeful morning in Feb ruary, and thence sailed away in the good ship Golden Wave to win his inheritance.