Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-18

slowly as to put everybody in suspense,
 "l wush you'd rippeat n0tc whut you
 said to tham city fcllers at was h-yur
 last summer huntun up thengs fur .
 history uv Santown, you reckle-leckp'
 The doctor, abating nothing of his
 rubicund grin, the judge only paused
 while few lazy old citizens struggled
 in to see what was going on and to
 hear old stories and new anecdotes.
 Among these noticed some of the
 Dikeses. the Sparkses, the Shipleys
 and the Ellets.
 70 yes,' said the judge, laughing.
 ''You see, one of them slick little high school fellahs come down fwom the city to git up picto-yal histwy of San- town un Feel County. In the cose uv convuhsation he med the wemahk that it couldn't be twue that the fohmah citizens of this countwy had come fwom a lawless set nv despewadoes. He said they. uh pwesent social status wepelled such an idea. Isaid:
 'Suh!' and here the Judge stood up to be the more impressive. 'You, in yo-uh day can fawm no idea of these people. I have no doubt, suh, that the man Bogus Luthuhwood. as he was and ts called. was no othuh than Joan Lafitte, the buccannceah of the Gulf. And l have no doubt that tho men who came up h-yuh and staid round about him and suhved him and lived with and about him wuh the identical men who had suhved unduh him befoah and unduh noah pehl-is cucumstancis, suh. Men that had fiah'd tho cannon and dwawn the buccanneeah's swode unduh the black flag, suh.. .s..s ,.,s4 .,...,.
 But who can moasuah the wefawm. ing influences of q quiet inland com. mudlty and the daily westwaint of we ligion and law! Men may fight against weligion and law. But nevvah agin Mah-uh o,On weligion and law. It only goes to show that this Nommun-Saxon people h-yuh, suh, have in themselves tho elements of wefawm an wegene- walton, suh! that enable them to lay aside life of bold and weckless un- lawful dah-wing, and take upon them. selves all the habiliments of a law abiding, God-feah-wing civilization. suh." .-..
 rapturous round of applause groets the conclusion of the judgo's eloquent defense of the progcnitors of Sand town, and out of this somebody is call- ing the new judges name at the door.
 70 that's it. is it?" Judge Barks says. with a twinkle in his merry old eyes. ''Then, gentlemen, of you'll assist mo. all uv yuh! we will escoht his honah, the new judge, down. Yo-ah cah.ige is at the do-ah, Judge Silkit. And yo-ah wife's waitin' thah foh yuh! Come avn, gentlemen! Fawm in double file thah, with Joe Ellit an Qoctah Daily in fwont. Judge Silkit an I will take up the post uv honah. Now then, gentlemen, fohwad of you-ah ready!"
 With merry imitation of mock dig nifty these practical joke-loving old Hoosicrs take mo down the stairway and out to a bran new two-seated car riagc which Jim Silket, Jr., young gentleman of sixteen, is driving, with critical eye upon the two bright bays which he flatters himself he can handle with as much eclat as his revered father.
 Mrs. Silkit, allow me to present to you the new judge of the Sanltown circuit court on the conclusion of his first day upon the bench. as such judge"
 Then, amid great deal of laugh ing and humorous remarks from all quarters, full of pleasant and compli- mentary allusions, Q rosy, fair, un- wrinkled, bright, sunny face with faxen hair about it, and by it's flaxen quality of color showing not thread of old Times gray spinning, leans out of the door of the carriage with bow that satisfies mo on the point of ele. gance and a smile that reveals the two rows of white teeth just as have seen them all my life. s..
 Do you think, gentlemen" sh< says, in that sweet womanly voice thai roally she al,oays had-though ooule not hear its melodies so long as th& siren song of Pony-no! Marie Char 1otte Lafitte-rang in my ears. '.De you think. gentlemen, that you car spare the judge long enough to enable us to fully contrive a little social gath. ering at our house tonight, to which l now invite you all?" .-l
 There was chorus of ssyes, yes," and '.yes, indeeds" and all manner oi affirmative formula, in which see my daughter Fan, who sits next her moth. CT laughing very gayly with the clerk Joe Ellet.
 Then. while all the young fellows crowd over to the other side of the carriage to get word or look from my daughter Fan--ny Fan reaches out her strong. fair hand and pulls me into the carriage. Then, with many hearty words of compliment and badinage and merry inuendoes and suggestions, we are of for home, spin. ming along tho widest new street in Sandtown. Fan. sitting by my side and getting her arm around me, says, in tone scarcely above . whisper:
 Fl heard all you old wretches of lawyers praising Polly Ann for her beauty! Poor Polly Ann-I can't call her Marie Charlotte Iafitte If it is her