The Newtown bee., 1892-09-02
but just now he could not raise money enough to pay for digging the post holes ::

| lick of work since he got to training with the North girl. But the way he talked and talked about that old meadow fence, saying it was shame and disgrace, running right up to the base line road as It did and within sight, too. of the new fence lately built by Jabez Watson, whose boy is sort of purring around Lizzie North, trying to cut Sam out-all this talk of Sam's set Uncle Dan'l to thinking that may be he ought to build the new fence. So he went over to Dea Bibbs' house and said:
 rom, you ain't got no objection to my putin up new fence along atween our medders, have your" The deacon sort of smiled like and said: "Waal, Danil, what on earth put that notion in your head?'' "Oh, nothin' petickiler,'' said Uncle Dan'l, "only the old fence is about past patchin' up and I thought, bein's how I've got my hay and barley in, I'd jest "Waals ain't this kind O sudden? You ain't never said nothin' about it before" "No," Uncle Dan'l admitted, ssbut I've been a-thinkin' about it for some time"
 The two old men walked along togeth- CT down the road to look at the fence l and talk the matter over. On the way, the deacon laid his hand on Uncle Dan''s arm and, stopping him, said: "Danil, look at that there tree right from here. What does it mind you of 9' "Nothin' pertickler, Tom.' 'Don't you mind that old tree down by the crick back O your pa's orchud- | the one that
 'Guess l do,' said Uncle Danl; ''the one where we had the fight that time.''
 'Yes, an Aunt Tilda come down an pulled me ofFn you''-
 "An' spanked you, too.' 'fes, so she did. I was gettin' lee tie the best of you when she come, I guess, Dan1."
 Fl dunno," said Uncle Dan'l; ssI guess if I'd a-had my boots on when kicked you in the stomick that time I'd a-winded you"
 But l was atop when Aunt Tildy come, you know.'
 ''Tha's so; but there ain't no tellin' what d a-happened if she hadn't a-come. l was pretty husky boy, Tom."
 ''So you was, Dan'l, but had you down."
 'Yes, but want a-whimperin' about it, was I?''
 "No, you want. I don't guess ei- ther of us was much O the whimperin' sort"
 "Waal, not very much that folks When they reached the meadow fence, Dea Bibbs said:
 "That's so; it is gettin' pretty rickety. But, Dan1,' he added after awhile, tits a.going to cost something to build a new.one. 1 should think''- | II know it, Tom, I know it; but I've calkelated on all that. Sammy, he's | gittin' along now, you know, an it sort O makes him ashamed, an bein's he's goin' to have the farm bime-by, any how, jest thought if you didn't have no objections I'd run up new one now."-
 "Waal, I'll tell you, Danil; I'm lee tie pinched for money jest now, butt What O that?'' said Uncle Danl. ''"Tain't goin' to cost you nothin'. I'm goin' to build it myself" "No, you ain't no such thing. Do you s'pose I'd let you build fence along my medder 'ithout payin' my share for it?'' "Waal, there ain't no share about it. l want new fence an you don't want no new one. That's all there is to it; an I'm a-goin' to pay for ev'ry stick of it, 'cause I'm the one as wants it.''
 ''No you ain't goin' to pay for it,nuth- er," said the deacon. "If that 'ere fence goes up, pay for half of it:'' s'What's the use O talkin' that way, Tom? I've got the money to do it with an you ain't; so what's the use O talk in about who's got to pay for it?''
 "Waal, I'm a-goin' to pay half or there ain't goin' to be no new fence. I'm sot on that, Danil, an you know when I'm sot I'm sot.''
 'So'm I sot on that ther's goin' to be a new fence an' that you ain't a-goin' to pay single, solitary red cent for it; an when I'm sot I'm jest as sot as you be-"
 "Waal, we'll see,' said the deacon.
 "Waal, we will see," replied Uncle Danil.
 They walked along down the line of the tottering fence and tried the decayed posts.
 ssA hog couldn't scratch hisself agin one of lem 'ithout pushin' the whole thing down." said Uncle Danil.
 'sThere had ought to be a new fence, no mistake about that," said the deacon, s:but I'm a-goin' to pay for half of it."
 ssNo, you ain't, nuther."
 "Yes be tuther."
 ssTom, never seen a stubbornder man than you be-
 ssThen I guess you ain't got no look in'-glass over to your house."
 "Yes, have, too, but l never seen no man in it that'd try to keep folks from buildin' fences when they wanted to-"
 ''Nobody's tryin' to keep folks from buildin' fences"
 @Yes, you be, too; an there ain't no sense in the way you're actin'.'
 1T guess I've got as much sense as some O my neighbors," said the deacon.
 ''Mebby you have an then agin mebby you hain't. You didn't have none too much sense that time you built your cowshed and swung the door in so's you couldn't open it till the COW got away from agin it"
 Had as much as you did when you