The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-09-14

happy, good natured youth at Nashville,
on good terms with everybody, full OF
brag, confidence and buster. For time
ne passed for what he pretended to be;
but the discovery was soon made that he
was capable of-just nothing at all Say
what you Will, there are men who are
born lazy and who never get the better
of it. Ithuriel was of this kind. He
studied law and could make nothing
out of it; medicine the same--but did
succeed in making the doctors patients
very sick with some of the wonderful
nasty doses that he compounded for
them in the doctors absence lie tried
clerking IT. and was dismissed in dis
grace before the end of the week. After
several more dismal failures he disap-
peared and was next heard of as fat
good natured, graceless loafer III some
of the villages of East Tennessee. Among
this plain, industrious and temperate
people the vagabond might have Jared
hard but for his never failing good
humor. Ii never deserted him. and
caused him to be tolerated whore he
could not be respected. Frequenting
the villages III winter, IN the mild and
pleasant seasons he would betake him
self to the mountains, and there wander
harmless1y and aimlcssly about, al pence
with the world and himself, mover re
fused the shelter Of the mountaiucer's
cabin or a share of his humble food.
His ponderous and useless firoaun al
ways accompanied him; and the stories
he would tell of the havoc that he had
caused with il in the Clinch Mountains
among bears and American panthers
were simply amazing. No one ever saw
any of the trophies of his skill and dar-
l,1f - ~
were always concluded with the asser-
ton, It's true; every word of ii is true.
Ithuriel Nancy says it, and he stakes
his honor as "A gentleman upon the cor
RICHNESS of this account. When il is
added that he was much given TO the use
of high-sounding words, which he re-
membered from his former reading Of
professional books, his photograph will
be complete.
With his great gun leaning against the
side of the cabin, this recruit now
stalked, or rather waddled, about from
one group to another, IA huge chunk of
bread in one hand and one of meat in
the other, and, with his mouth full
half the time, poured out a flood Of bun
come and gasconade
Happy to see you on hand, comrades,
all of YOU. Glad, indeed, to meet YOU
when the stern call of duty commands us
to do or die. ! trust that none Of YOU
will be found deficient in those stupcn-
dous and rcsounding virtues of patriot
ism, courage, and indomitable self-as-
sertVeness-"
oh, shut up, Ithy!"
go lie down
Let yourself out fer a pillow"
Or feather-bed.
We amt goin' to make soap crease
to-day"
Gentlemen and comrades" squealed
Ithuriel, not in the least abashed, your
hearts are in the right place If Your
tongues are little free. Yes, Your
bosoms respond, as mine does, to the
clarion blast for Union and freedom that
blows among these hills. Let the naughty
myrmidOns of jefferson Davis and lsnam
G.. Harris come up here if they dare!
Let them strive to rollute the free air Of
these inaccessible ompyrean regions with
the hated standard of the Southern Con
federacyl | think they will find a living
rampant of men III the way; at least |
know that they must first surmoUut the
PROSTATE body of Ithuriel Nancy
"They'd have TO 90 a long ways 10 find
it, one suggested
They might take it for putf-bal'."
Maybe they'd have TO take rua and
jump TO get over it."
Laugh if You win, gentlemen. The
real test of valor is at hand; we shall
soon know who has the divine afiiatus of
warlike Mars in his composition. Mark
me, and you viii sec one who viii not
falter nor turn back"
Won't, hey? ThatIi be more'n YOU
did when you met my yearling calf in
the woods, an thought it was bear"
You're safe enough, ltlIy. A bullet
would wander all round in that fat, an
not find anything to hit"
Let's send word to the other side that
THY is here with his gun. They won't
come at all, then"
These men were grave enough over the
prospectof m Getting and fighting large
and powerful body of armed foes; lat so
naturally does the human mind turn from
heaviness and care to mirth, that they
were glad of a chance to crack their Jokes
upon the braggart.
lTO BE CONTINUED.