The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-01-28
THE OLD SETTLER.
He Was Not Sure About the Story
Of William Tell
hut He Did Know OF Some wonderful
Shots Made BY Potiphar Jump
Who Won His Bride with
His Gun.

| 'Granpop, what do you s'pose m,
teacher says2" said little Peleg, as he
came homo from school one day, II
great excitemonk
Shouldn't wonder but what she say,
th't she wunt 'scuse y ont o. school nc
more on them suddent 'tacks O. tooth
ache th't ketches y soon ez the slatin
begins TO git good, replied the Old Set
tier. looking over his spectaolea
This reply Of his grandfathefs wa.
somewhat embarrassing to Peleg. TO,
he and Bill Simmons had stopped at the
pond on the way home from school and
had tried the ice by throwing heavy
stones on It, and found It safe and
sound for skating. Moreover, Pelea
had begun to feel apprehensive
that he was going to have the
toothache and the earache by next
morning, the way he felt and had
made up his mind to tell his grand.
mother that he was afraid he would
have to stay out of school and sit by
the stove with cotton and laudanum In
his car and tooth until he felt better, q
course Of treatment which the
Old Setter had noticed on previous 90.
casions as usually resulting In great
relief, If not absolute cure, about an
hour after school went in." The Old
Settlers unexpected reply to his Dues
ton was such homethrust, therefore,
that Peleg regretfully bade adieu to his
toothache and earache sympt oms until
some more propitious occasion might
offer for their reappoarance.
''An' just bark to wat say, sonnyr'
said the Old Settler, before PeleR re-
covered sufficiently to say anything
himself. 1.-The nex' time that tooth O.
yourn gets tot achin' you're gointer
mog right along o. me to the Doctors
n hen gointer yank It outr'
This rather darkened PeleR's future
In regard to the symptoms he was
afraid would reappear, but suddenly
recollecting that there wasn't anything
they could '.yank out" in case Of ear
ache. he grew easy in his mind again,
and, smiling at his grandfather, said:
Nov, gran'pop. that wasn't what
the teacher said! What do you s'pose
it WASP"
''Sumpin' bout pat'ral hist.ry, I
spect" growled the Old Settler. "If
1t were, Peleg, jist tell me wat she
said bout it. n I'll onsay 1t fer y m
set y right"
"Twasn't about natural history.
gran'pop" said PeleR. .Tt was about
history, though, and something you
and everybody else has always be.
lieved"
mot If it's hist'ry, b'gosh," ex.
claimed the Old Settler. ..Gimme facts
sonny, N I'll take EN- in, but don asst
me to swaller hist'ryv'
swell, it's all about William Tell and
the apple, gran'pop," said Peleg.
The Old Settler looked at Peleg for a
time with puzzled expression on his
face and then said:
II remember family by the name
O. Pell th't usety live on McGonigle
run, in the sugar swamp deestric', but,
b'gosh! they never had no ap-
pies! They couldn't raise wild goose
berries on that clearin' O. their'n, let
alone apples, n all the s'ile wild
gooseberries wants is the top Of stun
wall"
"He never lived in the sugar swamp
district, gran'pop" said Peleg. .He
lived in Switzerland. or I ALWAYS
thought he did, but my teacher says he
never lived anywheres."
''Kind O. boarded round, hay, like
deestric' school marm?"
"No," said Peleg. "He's a myth, the
teacher says. You know what myth
Is, gran'pop2 You remember telling
me about your killing a bear that had
two heads and only one eye?"
"f-e-e-s, sonny, seems to me I do"
said the Old Settler. "Yes.' Twere list
at the foot O. Squawke hill m me m
Lippy Conhr;ght-"
"That was the one," said Pelep, in.
terrupting his grandfather. "Weil, / |
was telling Bill Simmons about it YES.
terday, and Bill said he'd bet a cooky
that the bear was myth"
HE did, hay?" said the Old Settler,
with sneer 'Wull, If one O. them |
myths stands five foot high, with a |
head on each shoulder, an one big |
ylarin' eye stuck right betwixt 'em.
then that bar were myth, m a durn
good spec'ment o. one at thatl'
"Well, / asked the teacher what a
myth was, gran'pop," said Peleg, ..and
she said 1t was something that wasn't
So"
The Old Settler sat gazing over his
spectacles at Peleg for some time with
put word. Peleg became uneasy, and at
asst started in to lead the conversation
back to the original subject
Ihe way always heard it." he said,
William Tell lived in Switzerland.